The Margery Sullivan Chapter was founded on February 3, 1896, at the home of Mrs. Susan E. Sawyer, organizing regent. There were fifteen charter members.

Our Charter Members

Susan E. Sawyer (Mrs. Charles H.), Organizing Regent

Gertrude Sawyer (Mrs. William D.), Vice Regent

Abbie M. McDuffee Chase (Mrs. Charles K.), Treasurer

Caroline H. Garland (Miss), Registrar

Margaret P. Varney (Miss), Historian

Agnes Cheney Fish (Mrs. Charles)

Anna P. Frost (Miss)

Margaret B. Frost (Miss)

Martha Frost (Mrs. George S.)

Sophia D. Hall (Mrs. Colonel Daniel)

Sarah Low (Miss)

Gertrude S. Sawyer (Mrs. Charles F.)

Sarah Seavey (Mrs. J. Frank)

Hannah W. Smith (Mrs. Jeremiah)

Lydia A. Webster (Miss)

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Margery Sullivan

by Phyllis May Caron Gagnon

Margery Sullivan, that was her name

Married John Sullivan – her claim to fame.

But Margery Sullivan, she had a life,

And she was more than John Sullivan’s wife

Born Marg’ret Browne, in Ireland of old,

Known for her beauty, and known to be bold!

At 9 years of age a poor orphan girl,

She boarded a ship bound for the new world.

Also on board, a man of thirty-one,

Tall, distinguished Owen O’Sullivan.

In the new world, he changed his name to John,

And then was hired a teacher before long.

Years later, when Marg’ry was twenty-three,

John paid her indenture – a hefty fee.

And thus began their life of wedded bliss

The perfect marriage, with maybe a twist…

Adored by his students, happy with life,

It seems the husband neglected his wife.

At home, on the farm, in the fields she toiled,

Til, over time, her Irish temper boiled!

So, “Master Sullivan,” he took the door;

He would not abide the shrew anymore!

But Marg’ry atoned, in public no less,

And in the Boston Post, wrote her redress.

Margery promised to amend and reform,

So, John relented and he returned home.

Sixty years, all told, their marriage would last

Until, at one hundred and five, John passed.

But, the story of Margery and John

Through their children, forever lives on.

The warriors and Patriots Margery raised

Tell of a woman to be ever praised!

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Our Former Regents	Dates
Susan E. Sawyer	1896-1897
Gertrude H. Sawyer	1897-1899
Agnes C. Fish	1899-1900
Helen M. Murkland	1900-1901
Fannie D. French	1901-1903
Eva G. Hurd	1903-1905
Winifred L. Goss	1905-1907
Katherine V. H. Brown	1907-1909
Elizabeth P. Tapley	1909-1911
Alice C. Lamothe	1911-1913
Margaret P. Varney	1913-1915
Sara A. Pike	1915-1917
Olive H. Houston	1917-1919
Mary Abby L. Manock	1919-1921
Minnie D. Whitney	1921-1923
Alice Paton Barrett	1923-1925
Jennie M. Demerritt	1925-1927
Madeline Thorndike Reynolds Smith	1927-1929
Ethel Bennett Chapman	1929-1931
Georgia B. Case	1931-1933
Madeline Thorndike Reynolds Smith	1933-1935
Alice Kingman Hill	1935-1937
Lila B. Roberts	1937-1939
Dorothy K. Kalijarvi	1939-1941
Florence E. MacDaniel	1941-1944
Olive S. Austin	1944-1946
Bertha M. Davis	1946-1948
Elizabeth S. Philbrick	1948-1950
Dorothy S. Spofford	1950-1952
Bernice S. McKone	1952-1953
Dorothy L. Wentworth	1953-1954
Bernice S. McKone	1954-1956
Ella M. Newcomb	1956-1962
Wilma Thorin	1962-1964
Ruby H. Farrell	1964-1966
Beatrice H. Lemke	1966-1968
Marion J. Hurd	1968-1970
Marion S. Nossiff	1970-1972
Marion J. Hurd	1972-1976
Dorothy G. Brown	1976-1979
Miriam D. Printy	1979-1985
Margaret S. Sumner	1985-1989
Eleanor G. Bryant	1989-1992
Polly G. Walker	1992-1995
Maryann H. Wentworth	1995-1998
Elizabeth S. Canada	1998-2001
Alta Hartdorn	2001-2004
Barbara Langley	2004-2007
Mae Strawbridge	2007-2010
Patricia Holt	2010-2016
Christine Drown	2016-2022