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AACHM Oral History: Lydia Belle Morton

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Lydia B. (Cromwell) Morton was born in Ann Arbor in 1916. Her Great-Grandmother came to Ann Arbor with Judge Kenny’s family in 1867. Her grandmother Laura Bell Chester was born in Ann Arbor in 1874 and her mother was born in Ann Arbor in 1894. Mrs. Morton has one brother George Richard Cromwell. From her four children, she has 12 great grand children, 6 great, great, grand children; all but four were born in Ann Arbor. Seven generations have lived here in Ann Arbor.

4-H Prize Winners

4-H Prize Winners image
Year:
1939
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4-H Prize Winners

4-H Prize Winners image
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1939
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Mary Tait & Delphine Phillips, 4-H Summer Camp Baking Demonstration Team, August 1937

Mary Tait & Delphine Phillips, 4-H Summer Camp Baking Demonstration Team, August 1937 image
Year:
1937
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Ann Arbor News, August 18, 1937
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DEMONSTRATION TEAMS WILL COMPETE AT EAST LANSING: The four girls shown here will make up two demonstration teams to compete in district judging eliminations Monday and Tuesday in East Lansing. Representing Washtenaw county, they are from left to right Mary Sullivan and Vivian Kalmbach, canning demonstration team; and above, left to right, Mary Tait and Delphine Phillips, baking demonstration team. These pictures were taken at Lakeside park near Brighton, where the annual girls 4-H summer camp has been held for the past two weeks. The county eliminations were held at camp, and five other girls were named to compete at Lansing in canning and clothing competition.
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