Annette Riley Fry collection on Laura Brooks Troth Riley 1870s-1930s

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Annette Riley Fry collection on Laura Brooks Troth Riley 1870s-1930s

http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/pacscl/ead.html?id=PACSCL_HSP_CHHS200479

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, Philadelphia with her five children after her husband's death. This collection includes diaries, photo albums, autograph album, photographs, clippings, other printed items, and many letters.

3.9 Linear feet

Chestnut Hill Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 6328103

Chestnut Hill Historical Society

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Vassar College.

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Troth, Linda Brooks

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Riley, Laura Brooks Troth, 1882-1964

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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. ...