Marie Therese md. Antoine Cadillac, 1687; to MICH
There was a short article on this woman in the March/April 2013 issue of the DAR magazine to give information on the woman for whom a chapter is named:
"Marie Therese Cadillac Chapter, Cadillac, Michigan, is named for Marie-Therese Guyon Cadillac, who was born in Acadia, now Nova Scotia, in 1671, and married Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac in 1687.After France and Iroquois Nation signed a peace treaty in 1701, her husband was appointed administrator of le Detrot.She journeyed from Quebec to join him at Fort Pontchartrain, covering 750 miles of uncharted Irriquois territory in the course of more than seven months.As one of the first women in the Michigan Territories, she had many responsibilities, such as serving as a doctor for the 200 residents and 4,000 American Indians living nearby.Marie-Therese was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 1994."