Researching Emily Muir
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The name Emily means "industrious" and is of Teutonic origin.
Records of Emily Muir on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Emily Muir and the Muir Family History
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Muir Genealogy Databases
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Muir Forums
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Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on Emily Muir. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Emily Muir
Emily Muir
Emily Muir (February 10, 1904 – March 19, 2003) was an American painter, architect and philanthropist. After attending Vassar College and the Art Students League of New York, she and her husband moved to Maine in 1939. Mostly known as a portrait painter, Muir painted the official portrait of Senator Margaret Chase Smith for the Maine State House, but early in her career, she and her husband toured throughout Europe and South America painting dioramas for a steamship company. Her watercolor painting, Orchard Street, is part of the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and she has works in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Farnsworth Art Museum and the Portland Museum of Art. Self-taught as an architect, Muir designed over 45 homes in or around Crockett Cove near Stonington, Maine. As a philanthropist, she was involved in finding a permanent home for the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle and donated the Crockett Cove Woods Preserve and Wreck Island to The Nature Conservancy.
Source: Emily Muir, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Muir
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