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Her passion was collecting dolls, doll houses, and toys. She added gallery wings and outbuildings to her estate, which she eventually termed a "Museum of
Fascination". The grounds contained a town of dollhouses. In 1968, she received state approval for the establishment of a museum. At her death, her
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Margaret was the second and last child of John
Charles Woodbury (1859 in Rochester, NY – 1937) and the former Alice Motley (the first sibling died at childbirth). Margaret travelled the world with her parents beginning around 1907 after her father retired and sold the business started by
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Her father left her nearly one million dollars when he died in 1937 and this fortune had grown in excess of $ 77 million by the time
Margaret died in 1969. She is buried in the
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She married Homer Strong, over twenty years her senior, in
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doll collection numbered 22,000 and was the cornerstone of a collection containing more than 300,000 items.
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Margaret's grandfather, The Strong, and
Woodbury Whip Company. This is when she began her doll collection.
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