STORY WRITER DIES AT 83
HERKIMER - Mrs. Mary E. Q. Brush, 83, a well known author and mother of the Republican County Chairman, Donald L. Brush, died Sunday at her home on Graham St., after more than a year's illness.
Mrs. Brush wrote six children's books, the better known were " The coming of Caroline " and " Island Patty ", she also contributed numerous children's stories to magazines.
She was born in Herkimer on March 10, 1857, a daughter of Isaac and Mary Ann Rasbach Quackenbush, and spend almost all her life here. She attended Herkimer schools and graduated from the old Madame Platt's Academy, Utica.
Full obituary printed in the Observer-Dispatch, Utica N.Y. Monday Nov. 25, 1940.
STORY WRITER DIES AT 83
HERKIMER - Mrs. Mary E. Q. Brush, 83, a well known author and mother of the Republican County Chairman, Donald L. Brush, died Sunday at her home on Graham St., after more than a year's illness.
Mrs. Brush wrote six children's books, the better known were " The coming of Caroline " and " Island Patty ", she also contributed numerous children's stories to magazines.
She was born in Herkimer on March 10, 1857, a daughter of Isaac and Mary Ann Rasbach Quackenbush, and spend almost all her life here. She attended Herkimer schools and graduated from the old Madame Platt's Academy, Utica.
Full obituary printed in the Observer-Dispatch, Utica N.Y. Monday Nov. 25, 1940.
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