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Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton - Biography and Works |
 | | Gertrude Franklin Horn was born 30 October, 1857, in San Francisco, California, U.S.A. Her father was Thomas L. Horn, a businessman, and her mother Gertrude Franklin was a relative of Benjamin Franklin. |
 | | In 1876, at the age of nineteen, Gertrude eloped with George H. Bowen Atherton, a former suitor of her mother's and the son of Faxon Atherton, a wealthy merchant and namesake of the town of Atherton in California. |
 | | Gertrude Franklin Atherton died 14 June 1948 in San Francisco and her ashes are interred in a niche at the Cypress Lawn Memorial Park columbarium in Colma, San Mateo County, California. |
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