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First State Regent
Elizabeth Thompson Edgerton Newport
(Mrs. Reese M. Newport)
Saint Paul Chapter, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Organizing Regent, Saint Paul Chapter
October 14, 1891
Approved by the DAR National Board
January 1892 to serve as first Minnesota State Regent
1892-1898
Source: History of the Minnesota Daughters of the American Revolution, celebrating 125 years,
by Faye Leach, Birchdale Press, 2017, p. 3.
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Sibley House, Mendota, Minnesota, 1893
Photo courtesy of: Minnesota Historical Society, Press Kit, Sibley Historic
Site Images
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Sibley House, Mendota, Minnesota, Today
From 1910-1997, the Minnesota Society of the DAR owned and operated the Sibley House in Mendota, Minnesota, former residence of Minnesota's first Governor Henry Hastings Sibley.
Photo courtesy of: Minnesota Historical Society, Press Kit, Sibley Historic Site Images
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Members of the Albert Lea Chapter marked the site of the first village in Freeborn County, Minnesota
Source: History of the Minnesota Daughters of the American Revolution, celebrating 125 years, by Faye Leach, Birchdale Press, 2017, p. 99.
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DAR pay tribute to America's Unknown Soldier. Washington, D.C., April 16, 1939. Despite a heavy rain the members of the Daughters of the American Revolution today turned out in full force to pay homage to America's Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery. Mrs. Henry M. Robert, Jr., President General of the DAR, is pictured placing the wreath.
Credit Line: Harris & Ewing, photographer. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress.
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see Harris & Ewing Photographs - Rights and Restrictions.
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Minnesota DAR Gravesite Dedication by the Keewaydin Chapter, in September 2017 for Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark Van Cleve 1819-1907
American women's suffrage advocate and social reformer during the early history of Minnesota, and the first woman elected to the Minneapolis School Board. She was the author of numerous books and articles on Minnesota history, many of them based on her personal recollections. She was married to Major-General Horatio P. Van Cleve.
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