Farrar, Margaret Petherbridge
Mel Taub (Author)
Farrar, Margaret Petherbridge (23 March 1897-11 June 1984), crossword puzzle editor, was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Henry Petherbridge, owner of a licorice factory, and Margaret Furey. (She was to take the name Farrar when she married in 1926.) After graduating from Smith College in 1919 with a B.A. degree, she worked briefly in a bank. Looking for something more exciting, she took a job in 1920 as secretary to her college roommate’s stepfather, John O’Hara Cosgrave, Sunday editor of the ..
Encyclopedia Article, 1999
American National Biography Online, 1999
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999