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Summary Information

Repository: The Historical Society of Montgomery County

Title: Margaret B. Harvey Papers

Creator: Harvey, Margaret B., 1856 -1912

Dates: c. 1930

Accession number: 1939.9049

Extent: 10 linear inches

Language: English

Administrative note:  Margaret Boyle Harvey was born in Lower Merion in 1856. She was educated at the Girls' Normal School and the Woman's Medical College in Philadelphia and the University of California. In 1900, she earned a masters (A. M.) from Dickinson. She was an artist and poet and very active in the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Scope and content: This collection consists of twenty notebooks of transcribed records from the early years of Lower Merion. They include church and burial records as well as genealogical information. They are arranged chronologically and cover the years 1682-1845.