Who was martha berry biography
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Martha Berry ()
Martha McChesney Berry founded the Berry Schools for academically able but economically poor children of the rural South&#;those who usually could not afford to go to other schools.
Who was martha berry biography
These schools of the early s grew within three decades into Berry College, a comprehensive liberal arts college. As a result of her 40 years of work with the schools and college, Martha Berry is among Georgia's most prominent women of the first half of the 20th century.
Berry Family
Martha Berry was born on Oct.
7, , in Alabama to Thomas and Frances Margaret Rhea Berry. The family moved when she was still a baby to&#;Rome, Ga., where she lived for the remainder of her life. Martha's father operated a plantation and was a partner in Berrys and Company, a wholesale grocery and cotton brokerage business in Rome.
In he purchased a residence located approximately two miles north of downtown Rome, which was later known as Oak Hill.
Young Martha lived there with five sisters, two brothers an