History of the Ottawa Chapter

The original Ottawawa Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution was organized in August 1906 with sixteen members.  Their fifty-five years in existence, the chapter did many things to further the work of the DAR.  The Ottawa Chapter of the DAR was re-organized June 9 1977, in the Kensington Room of the Fogcutter Restaurant, Port Huron, Michigan. The new chapter used the Ottawa name which means in Native American, Algonquian language, "to trade."

Organizing Members

       In 2010, the Susan B. Anthony Museum in Rochester, NY agreed to receive from Jean Waddell a Suffragette collection that had belonged to her great-grandmother.  As a member of Ottawa Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, Port Huron MI, Jean donated the collection on behalf of Ottawa Chapter MI NSDAR.

     The collection included three “crazy” quilts now located in the Susan B. Anthony Museum in Rochester, NY.  The quilts were made from Susan’s old dresses by her good friend, Louise Bingham Reynolds, and donated by Louise’s great-granddaughter, Jean Cleland Waddell.