Alice Whitman Chapter Lewiston, Idaho serving Idaho and Washington

Objectives of the DAR     Historic Preservation     Promotion of Education     Patriotic Endeavor

Come and join us!  Bring your ancestors with you.  We welcome any and all interested ladies.  For more information on membership requirements, please go to: Idaho State Society DAR or NSDAR Membership For more Alice Whitman Chapter information, contact: Regent

Our Patriot Ancestors

Alice Whitman meetings are held on the 3rd Saturday of the month, September through May, usually at 1 p.m.

Regent Becky Riendeau welcomes You!

Chapter Calendar 2007-2008

First fruit (apple) tree planted in Idaho.  Photo taken:  1836

This tree was planted from seeds brought from New York to Lapwai Mission by Reverend Spalding.

The inscription on the head of the gavel reads: "From Spalding Apple Tree Lapwai (Idaho) Mission 1837 Alice Whitman Chapter, DAR"

This is one of the gavels made from the Spalding tree in the collection of Alice Whitman Chapter.  The accession number is 415.  The gavel was made by Rev. F. M. Morton, pastor of the Orofino Methodist church.

The Alice Whitman Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution has one of the gavels made from the first fruit tree planted in Idaho.  Daisy Tinkham Babb gave the gavel to the chapter when she was regent. of the chapter.  Mrs. Babb was interested in both local and national history, and her son, James Babb, became a historian conneced with the Harvard University Library. Mrs. Lora Allbright, a recently deceased resident of Lapwai and Spalding, was a regent of Alice Whitman DAR and was the regent of the Idaho State DAR in 1955-57.  She was on the Indian Committee of the group for many years for she had many Indian neighbors and friends.  She said that Mr. Joe O. Evans, Jr., who owned the Sacajawea Museum, made six or more gavels from the tree.  She was given two, one of which she gave to the Idaho State DAR in 1956, and the other is in possession of her daughter, Peggy Stedman of Spalding.  The handles of these gavels were made of Syringa wood from the Idaho State Flower. Surprisingly, the last chunck of the apple wood from that tree was discovered recently, chucked under the front porch of Nellie Belfre Woods, a history-minded DAR member.  Her daugher says that it is still there, waiting for some woodworker to make more mementos.

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