Mary Louise Curtis
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Mary Louise Curtis was the founder of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. She was the only child of the magazine and newspaper magnate Cyrus H. K. Curtis and Louisa Knapp Curtis, the founde
Mary Lewis Curtis
Mary Louise Curtis Branch, Settlement Music School, 416 Queen St., Philadelphia.
Mary Louise Curtis Bok donated the property for the Camden Public Library to the town of Camden, Maine in 1916
Edward Bok
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Edward William Bok was a Dutch-born American editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. He was editor of the Ladies' Home Journal for 30 years. He also distributed popular homebuilding plans and create
Mary Louise Curtis
…writing under her mother's maiden name (as Mary L. Knapp), she was one of sixteen people on the staff of Ladies' Home Journal in 1890, the first year of Edward W. Bok's long tenure as editor of the magazine. In 1896, at the age of nineteen, she married Bok, who was fourteen years her senior. The couple had two sons…
Bok c. 1918
The Singing Tower
Edward Bok with dogs
Ladies' Home Journal, 1913