 Margaret Scully is primarily known as Margaret Scully Zimmele
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Biography from AskART:
| The following information was submitted in September of 2006 by Bill Muller:
Margaret Anna Scully, b. Sept., 1872 in Pittsburgh, PA; d. Jan. 23, 1964 in Washington, DC. Margaret Anna Scully was a great great granddaughter of Alexander Negley of the Pittsburgh Negleys. She received a B.F.A. from the Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham College).
She married twice. First to George R. Waters who died in 1898 just a year after their marriage. In 1905 she married Harry Zimmele with whom she had a daughter (Harreyette M. Zimmele) who died in 1929. Harry Zimmele died in 1906. Margaret Anna Scully lived in Washington, DC for most of her adult life. She worked for the Office of Alien Property Custodianship at the start of World War I. She later became an art teacher, artist and decorator in Washington.
She was a member of the Society of Washington Artists and Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. In 1961 she and her companion, Mary Williamson, were savagely attacked with a hammer by her handyman, James B. Tonker. Margaret Anna survived the attack but died in Washington, DC in Jan., 1964. She is buried in a Pittsburgh, PA cemetery.
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