Margery (Gundry) King (1866 - 1950)

Born 7 Mar 1866 in Mineral Point Wisconsin U.S.A

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Died 5 Dec 1950 at age 84 in Chestnut Hill Pennsylvania

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Biography

Margery G. King. Margery, born in 1866, the youngest child of Joseph and Sarah Gundry, was a toddler when the family moved to Orchard Lawn. She went to the public school in Mineral Point until she was 17, then attended the Thane Miller School for Young Ladies in Cincinnati, also known as the Mt. Auburn Institute, which offered courses in “History of Art” and “Preparation for Foreign Travel.” In 1889 she married Harry Wheelock King in the front parlor at Orchard Lawn, where her portrait now hangs. At the time, H. The new couple moved to Cleveland and established a grand home on Euclid Avenue, also known as “Millionaire’s Row”; later, they built a country home called “Kingwood,” near Mentor, Ohio, whose property bordered that of Mrs. James Garfield, widow of the late president. Margery King returned to Mineral Point and Orchard Lawn many times; she and her niece, Nancy Lambertson inherited the property when her brother, Will Gundry, died in 1936 and the two of them turned the property over to the newly formed Mineral Point Historical Society for one dollar, in 1939. W. King was vice president of his family’s company, the King Bridge Company, headquartered in Cleveland. According to the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, the King Iron Bridge & Manufacturing Co. was the largest highway bridge works in the U.S. during the 1880s, and played an important role in the nationwide devel- opment and construction of the metal truss bridge, a unique product of American engineering and construction technol- ogy. The King Bridge Company was occasionally involved with structures other than bridges, most notably, the Ferris Wheel at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893.

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• from Joan Emerson Young archives