Marjorie Linder Monkhouse American Red Cross collection, 1943-1999 (bulk 1944-1948).
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Monkhouse, Marjorie Putnam Linder, 1921-2004
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Marjorie Putnam (Linder) Monkhouse was born in New York City and grew up on Staten Island; after graduating from Connecticut College, she joined the American Red Cross and was stationed in Italy and Germany from 1944-1948. After completing her time with the Red Cross, she returned to the states and began graduate studies at Boston University. She married Dr. William A. Monkhouse in 1977 and moved to Scarborough, Me., where she remained the rest of her life. From the description of Ma...
American Red Cross
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On December 2, 1905, Mrs. Tunis G. Bergen brought together a group of Brooklyn residents at the Barnard Club House on Remsen Street to form New York City's first borough-based Red Cross organization. With an initial membership roster of 300, the Brooklyn Chapter of the American Red Cross embarked on its first major campaign to aid victims of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, collecting over $100,000 and thousands of articles of clothing to contribute to the relief effort. From this point on, th...
