DAR Going Strong on North Shore-- Part 2: Visiting Injured Spanish-American War Soldiers

The North Shore Daughters of the American revolution (DAR) chapter has 122 members.  It is a lineage society.  To become a member, women must trace their ancestry to those whose participated in or supported the cause of the American Revolution.  Proof has to be in the form of documents.

Specific activities are chosen by each chapter.  For example, the North Shore chapter began visiting injured troops at Fort Sheridan in 1898 during the Spanish-American War.  More recently, it has delivered supplies to the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center in North Chicago.

The national organization's peak membership was during the 1976 American Bicentennial.  There are currently 183,000 members nationally, its highest number in two decades.

--DaCoot