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