Maher, Amy Grace, 1883-1965

Born in Thompsonville, Connecticut in 1846, William H. Maher came to Toledo in 1867. He established and organized several companies, including the Toledo Natural Gas Company and the Union Savings Bank. He married Anne Maher, who was a schoolteacher in Connecticut prior to following her husband to Toledo in 1867. They had a daughter, Amy Grace, in 1883, who grew up to become a child welfare activist and feminist. Among her achievements, Amy Maher helped to establish the first open-air school for tubercular children, founded the Toledo Consumer's League, and was appointed by President Roosevelt as technical adviser in the Social Security Administration. Her father, William, died in 1913, with her mother soon after in 1919. Amy Maher passed away in Toledo in 1965.