Bertha King (Bartlett) Benkard (1877 - abt. 1945)

Ancestors

Wife of Harry Horton Benkard — married 5 Feb 1903 in Grace Church. New York City

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Biography

Bertha was born in 1877. She is the daughter of Franklin Bartlett and Bertha Post.

• She is described in an obituary for her daughter as "an early and noted collector of Americana". That is indeed the context in which search engines generally find her on the internet.

Sources

• Bertha King Post ...139. iii- Bertha King, b. Jan. 2, 1877, in William James of Albany, N.Y. (1771-1832) and his descendants, with notes on some collateral lines by Katharine Bagg Hastings. Published 1924 as a reprint from the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record and made available online by the wonderful Internet Archive (Wayback Machine) project from a contribution by the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. Pages 31 and 38-39
• Eleventh Report of the Class of 1869, Harvard College Pubished under the direction of the Class Committee June 1919, printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge. Pages 21-27
• There is a Find-a-Grave page for her, but it appears to misrepresent relationships in incestuous ways, and I am therefore disinclined to include a link to it here.
• The Benkard Room by Joseph Downs. Published by "The Metropolitan Museum of Art" in he Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin , Jan., 1948, New Series, Vol. 6, No. 5 (Jan., 1948), pp. 137-141. Made available online by JSTOR