Marie Mattingly Meloney
Journalist, Deceased Person
1878 – 1943
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Who was Marie Mattingly Meloney?
Marie Mattingly Meloney, who used Mrs. William B. Meloney as her professional and social name, was "one of the leading woman journalists of the United States", a magazine editor and a socialite who in the 1920s organized a fund drive to buy radium for Marie Curie and began a movement for better housing. In the 1930s she was a friend and confidante of Eleanor Roosevelt. She was nicknamed Missy.
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- Born
- Dec 8, 1878
Bardstown - Also known as
- Mrs. William B. Meloney
- Missy
- Marie Mattingly
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- William Brown Meloney
(1904 - 1925/12/07)
- William Brown Meloney
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Jun 23, 1943
Pawling - Resting place
- Woodlawn Cemetery
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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