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Four Generations: Through Women's Voices

This book describes Four Generations through the eyes of it's women.* Widowed with three small children,Gertrude Linnenkugelventured into business as Baltimore found itself wedged between the North and the South at the dawn of the Civil War.* Gertrude’s daughter,Mary Pahmeyercared for her younger siblings while her mother worked. With little formal learning she amassed an impressive residential real estate portfolio at a time when banks required her husband to co-sign for loans.* Mary’s daughterBertha Tapman, despondent over her younger brother’s death left high school to collect her mother’s rent revenue. A woman doctor who leased one of their properties influenced Bertha too, to become a doctor.* Bertha’s accomplished daughters’Peg Petersen QuigleyandMiriam Shamer Dalycontinue their families stories into the 21st Century.Read more

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