Addie Donnell Van Noppen

Addie Cabe Donnell Van Noppen (March 29, 1870 – January 9, 1964) was an American historian and civic leader. She was the organizing regent of the Guilford Battle Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and served as the North Carolina DAR's State Historian from 1901 to 1907. In 1915, she authored The Battle Field of Guilford Court House.

Biography Van Noppen was born Addie Cabe Donnell on March 29, 1870 to George Donnell and Sarah Jane Caldwell Donnell. She was a great-granddaughter of Congressman William Davidson.

She was the organizing chapter regent of the Guilford Battle Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She served as the State Historian of the North Carolina Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution from 1901 to 1907.

Van Noppen authored the booklet The Battle Field of Guilford Court House, the first edition published in 1915 and the second edition published in 1927, to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the battle field becoming Guilford Courthouse National Military Park.

In 1896, she married Charles Leonard Van Noppen, a Dutch-born businessman, publisher, and political reformer. They had four children.

She died on January 9, 1964 and was buried in Green Hill Cemetery.