Victoria Therese Donohoe
1929–2018
U. S. Census
Census | Age | Race | Gender | Marital | Relation | Address | Immigrated | Birthplace | Father's | Mother's | As transcribed | Note | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1930 | 1 | White | Female | Single | Daughter | 34 Narbrook Park | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | M Victoria Donohoe | 34 Narbrook | ||
1940 | 11 | White | Female | Single | Daughter | 34 Narbrook Park | Pennsylvania | Victoria Donohoe | 34 Narbrook | ||||
1950 | 21 | White | Female | Never | Daughter | 34 Narbrook Park | Pennsylvania | Victoria Donohoe | 34 Narbrook |
Census Households
Census | Name | Relation | Age | Own | Race | Marital | Birthplace | Business | Trade | Note |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1930 | Daniel J Donohoe | Head | 35 | Own | White | Married | Pennsylvania | Advertising | Artist | |
Ann L Donohoe | Wife | 34 | White | Married | Pennsylvania | |||||
Victoria Therese Donohoe | Daughter | 1 | White | Single | Pennsylvania | |||||
1940 | Daniel J Donohoe | Head | 49 | Own | White | Married | Pennsylvania | Newspaper | Commercial Artist | |
Ann L Donohoe | Wife | 49 | White | Married | Pennsylvania | |||||
Victoria Therese Donohoe | Daughter | 11 | White | Single | Pennsylvania | |||||
1950 | Daniel J Donohoe | Head | 58 | White | Married | Pennsylvania | Newspaper | Advertising Artist | ||
Ann L Donohoe | Wife | 56 | White | Married | Pennsylvania | |||||
Victoria Therese Donohoe | Daughter | 21 | White | Never | Pennsylvania |
Victoria Donohoe was a lifelong resident of 34 Narbrook Park, the home her family owned for 95 years, from 1923 until 2018. Vicky researched and wrote the nomination (PDF) that resulted in Narbrook Park being listed as an Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places. She drafted the Bert Bell state historic marker on Haverford Ave. She was the Philadelphia Inquirer art and architecture critic for over 50 years, wrote numerous articles and essays on the history of Narberth and left a huge collection of paintings, drawings, papers and photographs.
Vicky's local history essays on Friends of Narberth History and the Lower Merion Historical Society:
Narberth from Montgomery County, the Second Hundred Years (1983)
Narberth—A History (1995)
Six chapters in The First 300: The Amazing and Rich History of Lower Merion (2000): Colonel Owen Jones’ Wynne Wood, Narberth, Local Trades, The Von Trapp Family in Merion, William McDowell’s Olinda, Isaac Clothier’s Ballytore