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Margaret White Bush-Brown (Lesley)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA
Death: 1944 (86-87)
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Peter Lesley, Jr. and Susan Inches Lesley
Wife of Henry Kirke Bush-Brown
Mother of Lydia Bush-Brown Head; Harold Bush-Brown; Malcom Lesley Bush-Brown and James Bush-Brown
Sister of Mary Ames

Occupation: Artist, painter
Managed by: Martin Severin Eriksen
Last Updated:

About Margaret White Bush-Brown

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Lesley_Bush-Brown

BROWN, Margaret Lesley Bush, 1729 G St., Washington, D.C.

Artist painter; b. Philadelphia 1857; dau. Peter and Susan I. (Lyman) Lesley; ed. Pa. Acad, of Fine Arts, Ateliers of Carolus Duran and Julien under Jules Lefebvre and Boulanger, Paris, 1880; m. 1386 Henry K. Bush-Brown, sculptor;

children: Lydia, Harold, Malcolm, James.

Portrait and picture painter; exhibited on the line in Paris Salon of 1882, received honorable mention at Pa. Acad. Fine Arts for portrait of Prof. Lesley, 1887; decorated one panel In Pa. Building at Columbian World's Fair. Received medals tor miniature and oil paintings at Columbus, S.C., Knoxville and other places. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Nat Arts Club. N.Y. City.

Bibliographic information:

  • Title Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915
  • Editor John William Leonard
  • Publisher American Commonwealth Company, 1914
  • Original from Harvard University
  • Digitized Jul 9, 2007
  • Length 961 pages
  • Page 136
  • https://books.google.com/books?id=aHUEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA136&lpg=PA136&d...

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Margaret White Bush-Brown's Timeline

1857
May 19, 1857
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA
1887
November 5, 1887
Florence, Metropolitan City of Florence, Tuscany, Italy
1888
November 3, 1888
Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France
1891
July 1891
New York, United States
1892
December 22, 1892
Newburgh, Orange County, New York, United States
1944
1944
Age 86