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Elfelt married twice. Her first husband was
Bahamas fisheries owner Robert Francis Pyfrom; they married in 1883 and divorced a few years later. Her second husband was lawyer William Bramhall; they married in 1888. She died in 1924, aged 62 years.
105:, the daughter of businessman Abram S. Elfelt and Susan Carroll Fryer Elfelt. Her parents were both born in Pennsylvania; her family was Jewish, and her father was a founder and president of the
89:(April 2, 1862 – December 22, 1924) was an American clubwoman and forest conservationist, based in Minnesota. She headed women's club efforts to create the forest preserve that became the
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