Author: Myrtle Cheney Murdock, Doctor of Education. Published by Monumental Press Inc., 1952, 1st Edition. Graciously Signed and Dated by the Author on the bottom corner of the Front Free Page. Printed in USA. Very Good Condition HARDCOVER Book, with light handling wear to red cloth cover, no Dust Jacket. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 6 x 9 inch, 193 pages with index.
YOUR MEMORIALS IN WASHINGTON, by Myrtle Cheney Murdock, introduces the reader to famous United States of America's most famous sites, such as Washington, D.C., several D.C., Memorials, Monuments, Public Buildings, Washington Monument, Mount Vernon, Arlington National Cemetery, and The Lincoln Memorial.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Myrtle M. Cheney was born to Nathaniel and Annie Cheney in Nauvoo, Illinois on November 28, 1885. She was raised in Kirksville, Missouri and met her husband, John Robert Murdock (1885-1972), while studying at Missouri State Teacher's College. The couple had three children: Rachel (Murdock) Ellis (ca. 1911-), David Nathaniel (1913-1943), and John Benjamin (1919-2007). After briefly teaching at public schools in Oklahoma, the family moved to Tempe, Arizona.
Myrtle Cheney Murdock completed a Masters in Education at the University of Arizona and accepted a teaching appointment at Phoenix College. Upon her husband's election to the US Congress she relocated with him to Washington and served as his clerk. She was elected president of the 75th Congressional Club and wrote regular columns for the Arizona Republic entitled "Washington Life by the Congressman's Wife". In 1940 she completed her PhD in Education at George Washington University.
The Murdocks chose to stay in Washington after John Murdock's defeat in the 1952 congressional election. Myrtle Murdock completed a biography of US capitol artist Constantino Brumidi, served as a capitol docent, and taught classes at George Washington University. She died of pneumonia at Media, Pennsylvania on March 19, 1980.
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