Bio of Sylvester, Hettie L. Dillon (b.1863) Wabasha Co., MN ========================================================================= USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. If you have found this file through a source other than the MNArchives Table Of Contents you can find other Minnesota related Archives at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/mnfiles.htm Please note the county and type of file at the top of this page to find the submitter information or other files for this county. FileFormat by Terri--MNArchives Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by: Barbara Timm ========================================================================= This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1920. Check out Barbara's site for more great information on this book: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnwabbio/wab3.htm There are also some pictures and information from descendents for some of the bios on her pages. Sylvester, Hettie L. Dillon (page 222), now Mrs. Edwin L. Sylvester, was born at St. Lawrence, Jefferson County, N. Y., daughter of Albert and Helen P. (Goodenough) Dillon, April 6, 1863. Albert Dillon served in Co. E., 186th New York Volunteer Infantry, attained the rank of corporal, and was killed at the Battle of Petersburg, April 2, 1865. Thus left a widow, Mrs. Dillon later married R. W. Chapman, who brought the family to Minnesota in 1869, and settled on a farm near Elgin in this county. The young daughter, who was six years old when the family arrived, attended the schools of her neighborhood and graduated from the Plainview High School. Mrs. Sylvester has been active in all those lines which made for helpful motherhood and helpful womanhood. Her first interest has been her home, and to her family she devoted the major part of her time until the children began to reach more mature years. But this has not been the compass of her work. She is a pillar in the Christian Church, prominent in its various interests, superintendent of the Sunday school and president of its Ladies' Union. In the Eastern Star, the Rebekah Degree and the Ladies' Circle of the D. A. R. she has occupied the highest local offices. One of the founders and a charter member of the Travelers club, she helped shape its policies, as chairman of the entertainment committee for many years. In pursuing these various interests she has kept well abreast of those movements which are tending to enlarge woman's scope of influence, and the granting of suffrage rights to women has brought to her the high historical honor of being the first chairman of the Republican Ladies of Wabasha county.