Maher, Amy Grace, 1883-1965

  1. Maher, Amy Grace, 1883-1965
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ca. 1867 Came to Toledo, worked as clerk 1846 Born in Thompsonville, Connecticut 1866 President of Young Men's Club, Windsor Locks, Conn. 1870 Member of firm later known as C. Gerber & Co. 1874 1875 In Springfield, Mass., and South Dartmouth, Mass. 1877 With Emil Grosh, established Maher & Grosh, a wholesale hardware and cutlery house in Toledo 1886 An organizer of the Toledo Natural Gas Company 1888 An organizer and vice-president of Union Savings Bank 1894 Co-founded the Independent Party 1913 Died in Toledo ca. 1840 Born in East River, Connecticut 1872 Schoolteacher in Madison, Conn. 1872 Came to Toledo with husband William H. Maher 1919 Died in Toledo 1883 Born in Toledo, Ohio 1906 Graduated from Smith College 1909 Delegate to White House Conference on Child Welfare 1911 Helped establish the first open-air school for tubercular children 1916 Founded the Toledo Consumers' League; president until 1937 1920 First chairman of Ohio League of Women Voters 1920 Chairman of the Ohio Council on Women and Children in Industry 1921 First president of League of Women Voters of Toledo 1938 Appointed by President Roosevelt as technical adviser in the Social Security Board 1965 Died in Toledo

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.

From the guide to the Maher Family Papers, 1757-1938, (Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections, The University of Toledo)
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