The fourth of six children, Amy was undoubtedly born in Philadelphia, probably at 2203 N 30th Street, which is where her parents lived in 1880. Along with her sister Mabel she was a member of the Glenwood Wheelmen Club, and the Ladies of Maccabees Club, Quaker City Hive No. 244. Amy was severely injured on August 25, 1911, when the Lehigh Railroad train she and Mabel who were returning from a trip to Niagra Falls, went off the bridge over the Canandaigua Creek in Manchester, NY. Mabel died in the accident, and Amy spent months recuperating in the Hahneman Hospital in Rochester, NY. A description of the wreck can be found in Mabel's biography. Amy never married. She and Mabel were the only two children of six in her family to reach maturity and she was the last remaining member of her immediate family after 1929, when her mother died.
The fourth of six children, Amy was undoubtedly born in Philadelphia, probably at 2203 N 30th Street, which is where her parents lived in 1880. Along with her sister Mabel she was a member of the Glenwood Wheelmen Club, and the Ladies of Maccabees Club, Quaker City Hive No. 244. Amy was severely injured on August 25, 1911, when the Lehigh Railroad train she and Mabel who were returning from a trip to Niagra Falls, went off the bridge over the Canandaigua Creek in Manchester, NY. Mabel died in the accident, and Amy spent months recuperating in the Hahneman Hospital in Rochester, NY. A description of the wreck can be found in Mabel's biography. Amy never married. She and Mabel were the only two children of six in her family to reach maturity and she was the last remaining member of her immediate family after 1929, when her mother died.
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