Information Sheet

 

 

R         Daughters of the American Revolution.  Noah Coleman Chapter (Phelps

291      County, Mo.).

                        Records, 1909-1984.

                                    Ten volumes and forty-six booklets.

 

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These are minutes of meetings, scrapbooks, and yearbooks of the Noah Coleman Chapter of the DAR.  Members from Phelps County organized the chapter at Rolla in 1909.

 

Twenty Rolla women met in October and November 1909 to establish a local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.  The chapter was officially chartered in December.  It was named for Noah Coleman (1704-1784), Surgeon of the 2nd Connecticut Infantry in the Revolution­ary War, and ancestor of Mrs. C. R. Forbes, first regent of the Rolla Chapter.  Most of the charter members were residents of Rolla.  By the mid-1980s membership had grown to about sixty, and in­cluded members from Crawford, Dent, Phelps, and Pulaski coun­ties.

 

The chapter has been active in nationwide patriotic programs and charities sponsored by the Daughters of the American Revolution.  Locally, members supported the Rolla Public Schools and the School (later College) of the Ozarks, identified and marked the graves of Revolutionary War soldiers, aided influenza patients in 1918, participated in Red Cross pro­grams (particularly during the world wars), aided local hospitals, and co-sponsored memorials honoring Phelps County’s war dead.

 

The records of the chapter are near complete for the period 1909-1984.  They have been ar­ranged in three groups: Minutes of meetings, scrapbooks, and yearbooks.  The minutes for 1918-1929 are missing, but the period is documented by the other materials.  The scrapbooks contain photographs, clippings, and miscellaneous items which illustrate most of the activities of the chap­ter.  The set of yearbooks is nearly complete for 1909-1984.  The exceptions are those for 1913, 1926, 1927, 1969, 1978, and 1981, which are missing and have not been filmed.  The yearbook for 1982-1984 is included as part of the scrapbook of that period (Volume 10).

 

Yearbooks for 1913 and 1942-1943 can be found in folder 152 of collection R647.

 

 

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