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Emily Louise Gerry (1802-1894) was the First Regent of the Mary Clap Wooster Chapter NSDAR, and a true Daughter of the American Revolution. Miss Emily was the daughter of the Honorable Elbridge Gerry, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, Governor of Massachusetts, and for two years Vice-President of the United States under James Madison in 1813. For several years before her death she enjoyed the distinction of being the only surviving child of a "signer". Her name and personality brought to our newly formed chapter a prestige that still abides with it.  

The Mary Clap Wooster Chapter, NSDAR is proud of the distinction it enjoys in having so noted a woman as a former presiding officer in chief and is the only chapter worldwide to have had a Real Daughter as a regent.   

                  

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Note from the chapter registrar regarding Emily Louise Gerry

Real Daughter, Phoebe Kimberly Castle,

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