Reed, Mary Dean
Person
Biography
Mrs. Mary Dean Reed (Mrs. Verner Zevola Reed) pledges $100,000 for the construction of a liberal arts building in 1927, to be named Margery Reed Mayo Hall, for their daughter Margery, who had graduated from DU and married Professor Paul Mayo.
Sources
Breck, From the Rockies to the World, 1997, 121.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Bloomfield Park Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: B130
Abstract
Sam Bloomfield had a fish market in Bloomfield Park (now Rude Park) that catered to the Orthodox Jews in the West Colfax area. In the early 1920s, philanthropists Isadore Rude, Leopold Guldman, and Mary Reed bought the land and deeded it to the City and County of Denver. The collection contains a scrapbook with articles about a Mesa county scandel involving murder and fish, Sam Bloomfield and his fish market, the West Side neighborhood, and various groups that met at the Park. The scrapbook...
Dates:
Other: 1901-1922
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- Subject: Fishmongers X