Florence Peshine Eagleton
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Biography
She was born in Newark, New Jersey to Elizabeth Mary Jellip and Francis Stratford Peshine. Francis was a shoe dealer. They were reasonably affluent as is borne out by the fact that in 1880 they had three live-in servants.[3][4] She married a man twice her age, and that marriage ended in divorce. In 1913 she married Wells Phillips Eagleton (1865-1946), a neurosurgeon.[5] She was a trustee of the Newark Museum, a vice president of the Travelers Aid Society, and a life member of the New Jersey Historical Society.[6] She died on November 22, 1956.[4]
References
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- ↑ 1880 US Census; Newark, New Jersey with Eagletons
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- ↑ Maxine N. Lurie, Marc Mappen; Encyclopedia of New Jersey
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