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Anna Pendleton Schenck (d. 1915) was an architect in New York; she and Marcia Mead founded an architecture firm together just a few years before Schenck's passing. The New York Times snarked in its headline that "GIRL ARCHITECTS ORGANIZE A FIRM....Houses They Design Will Have Plenty of Closets." In March 1915, Schenck & Mead won a design competition sponsored by the City Club of Chicago, with their plans for a neighborhood center in the Bronx. Later that year, Miss Schenck died from pneumonia at New York Hospital, age 41. Her obituary says she was born in Brooklyn, daughter of Rev. Noah Hunt Schenck (1825-1885), rector at St. Ann's Protestant Episcopal Church of Brooklyn; that she was one of the first women to earn a degree at Columbia University; and that she studied architecture in Paris, under Aubretin.

New-York tribune., May 25, 1913, Page 2, Image 44 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1913-05-25/ed-... mentions a Mrs. George Austin Morrison. The sun., December 01, 1916, Page 5 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030431/1916-12-01/ed-... reports his death but does not identify her maiden name.

www.electricscotland.com/history/descendants/chap112.htm identifies the wife of George Austin Morrison as Magdalen Sophrona Worden, daughter of the late Linas Dean and Mary Ann (Kraft) Worden. They married in April 1912. Magdalen Sophrona Worden was born Oct. 3, 1884 (according to www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/new-york-genealogical-and-... ) which is compatible with the age of this woman. I haven't found any confirming pictures yet. If it is her, she was a pinist and composer.

NYT, April 22, 1906 select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0E1EFB3A5A1273... has a picture of Miss Worden when she became organist at the Baptist Church of the Epiphany. It could certainly be the same woman.

swanq: Looks like the same person to me! Thanks for your sleuthing. We'll include Worden's full name in the description next time we update.

A root in the census shows two Edith Coles'eses in 1901, and none at all in 1911. One Edith was 1 month old in 1901, so that's not her.

This one (a .pdf) was only eight, so would be 17 in 1910. CofE, born in Cornwall, living in Cove, near Kinsale in 1901. Her Dad was gone in 1911, too, maybe they moved back to England.

So is this that Edith? Or is it some furriner actress who was just visiting?

This is only eBay, so not a permanent link, but it's a postcard of Edith Coles "The Worst Woman in London".

Niall McAuley I was thinking furriner, but maybe not. And wow, wonder if that was a character assessment, or was it a character she played in the theatre... Added it as a tag either way.

From Memories of Show Business by Percy G Court, 1953:

Miss Edith Cole had her usual benefit on Friday night of each visit - ah -hem "The Still Alarm" with its two white horses which harnessed themselves to the engine and drove off the stage with fire bells clanging.

A playbill from Leeds, 1909:

Monday, 17th May, 1909. This evening's entertainment consists of the 'special engagement of W.W. Kelly's London Company, including the celebrated actress Miss Edith Coles, in the most successful historical play of the century' called, 'A Royal Divorce', by W.G. Wills.

So, if she was a headliner in 1909, I don't think she was our Kinsale girl, she'd only be 16 in 1909.