NEBRASKA STATE SOCIETY, DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
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Mary Katharine Goddard Chapter

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Omaha, Nebraska

Meetings are the second Wednesday of October, November, December, March, April, May, and June
Organized December 4, 1926

Chapter Officers

Regent
Susan Grennan

First Vice Regent
Amy Grandjean

Second Vice Regent
Judy Fletcher

Chaplain
Janet Mardis
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Recording Secretary
Ana Weyhrich

Corresponding Secretary
Denise Myatt
Treasurer
Karen Fitzgibbons

Registrar
Mary Hankey
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Assistant Registrar

Marcie Garnett

Historian
Kim Weyhrich

​Librarian
Sherry Hageman

The chapter was named in honor of Mary Katharine Goddard in the sesquicentennial year of our country and confirmed in January,1927, just one hundred fifty years after she rendered her distinctive service to our nation.

In 1774, Mary Katharine Goddard assumed the management of an infant newspaper and conducted it successfully through all the years of the Revolutionary War. In 1784, she relinquished her journal, a prosperous concern, to her brother.

During these years, Mary Goddard's activities were not confined to the composing room and editorial office. Her advertisements indicate the maintenance of a well-stocked book and stationery store. Her job-printing office was a busy one, where copper plate work and the finer kinds of printing were done, and where books of various sorts were creditably produced. It has also been claimed that she operated the local paper mill. At any rate, she did much to foster the difficult infancy of paper manufacturing in Maryland.

July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. In August, a measure was passed to have a suitable copy engrossed upon parchment, to which all members who voted for the measure should attach their signatures. This was done, but the signatures were not all secured at once.

On January 18, 1777, a motion was passed to have copies of this important document printed, with all the signatures appended, to send out to the colonies and army officers. When a committee came from the Congress to the printing office of William Goddard, they learned that he was away on a horseback tour of the coastal towns in the interest of the colonies, so his sister Mary took it upon herself to complete the task.  This is why the first signed copies of the Declaration of Independence bear the line: "printed by Mary Katherine Goddard."
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  • Home
    • Today's DAR
    • Virtual Tour
    • Memorial Continental Hall
  • Membership
    • Junior Members
  • Chapters
    • District I >
      • Captain Christopher Robinson
      • Evergreen
      • Fort Sidney
      • Katahdin
      • Point of Rock
      • Sandhills
      • Sioux Lookout
    • District II >
      • Betsey Hager
      • Bonneville
      • Fort Kearney
      • General George A. Custer
      • Loup Trail
      • Niobrara Butler-Johnson
      • Shelton
      • Thirty-Seventh Star
    • District III >
      • David City
      • Lewis-Clark
      • Mary Katherine Goddard
      • Nancy Gary
      • Omaha
    • District IV >
      • Deborah Avery
      • Major Isaac Sadler - La Belle Vue
      • Otoe
      • Quivera
      • Reavis-Ashley
      • St. Leger Cowley
  • About Us
    • Executive Board
    • Committees
    • Miss Nebraska Doll
    • Project Patriot
    • Libraries
    • C.A.R.
  • Historical Daughters
  • Calendar
  • Contact Us
  • Join
  • Members Only
  • Link Page