Riley, Laura Brooks Troth, 1882-1964
Laura Brooks Troth, 1882-1964, grew up in Germantown, Philadelphia and moved to Poughkeepsie NY in 1909 when she married Woodbridge Riley, who was head of the Philosophy department at Vassar College. Laura returned to Chestnut Hill with her five children after her husband's death in 1934 and lived on Wheelpump Lane, near the Morris Arboretum. Laura died in 1964 at The Anglecott on E. Evergreen Ave., then a nursing home but formerly the family home of her friend, Dorothy Potter.
Annette Riley Fry, a family descendant, is the author of The Orphan Trains, 1994.
From the guide to the Annette Riley Fry collection on Laura Brooks Troth Riley, 1870s-1930s, (Chestnut Hill Historical Society)
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