Elizabeth (Shapleigh) Macdonald was born in 1882 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Waldron and Mary (Dupey) Shapleigh. In June 1905, she married Harry Peake Macdonald, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a mechanical engineer employed by the Snead Iron Works in Jersey City. ESM and HPM lived in Montclair, New Jersey, and had four children: Waldron Shapleigh (1907- ), Udolpho Snead (1908- ), Harry Peake (1909-1976), and Mary Alastair (1914- ). As a young woman ESM visited much of the East Coast, and in 1898 toured Europe. During World War Ishe was a lieutenant in the Montclair Chapter of the Red Cross Motor Corps.
From the guide to the Papers, 1893-1934, (Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute)
