Margaret Olson Bell-Dobin collection, 1902-1978 (bulk 1931-1978).

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Margaret Olson Bell-Dobin collection, 1902-1978 (bulk 1931-1978).

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Biographical material; correspondence arranged alphabetically rather than chronologically, and containing incoming and outgoing family correspondence and correspondence pertaining to written manuscripts (1931-1976); financial records and city receipt books (1894-1974); genealogy (collected by outside researchers) (1889-1987); miscellaneous legal documents including beauty operator's license (1931-1957); printed material other than by Bell (1907-1971); manuscript writings (not dated); newspaper clippings with subjects other than Bell (1937-1970); and fourteen scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings and writings by Bell (1902-1973).

3 linear ft.

Cascade County Historical Society, Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 8079043

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Bell, Margaret, 1888-1982

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Margaret (Peggy) Olson was born in Great Falls, Mont., in 1888. While she was still a young child her parents divorced and her mother married Hedges Wolfe, a Canadian wrestler. When Peggy was six they moved to a homestead near Sand Coulee, where they spent their summers, while returning to Great Falls for the winters. After Peggy's mother died, her stepfather took them to a homestead in Saskatchewan. They later moved to British Columbia and Spokane, Wash. Peggy's health suffered in the Pacific N...