Background
Hamm, Margherita Arlina Mistress was born on April 29, 1871 in Saint Stephens, N.B. Daughter of Rufus Louisiana Fayette and Almenia (Spencer) Hamm.
Hamm, Margherita Arlina Mistress was born on April 29, 1871 in Saint Stephens, N.B. Daughter of Rufus Louisiana Fayette and Almenia (Spencer) Hamm.
Educated Convent of the Sacred Heart, Carleton, North.B. Emerson College, Boston, New York University Law School, Royal College, Hong-Kong. Summer lecture course, Oxford, England.
Newspaper reporter and author from 1887. Traveled in the United States, Hawaii and West. Indies in ’90’s for Sun, Herald and Mail, New New York Later visited Japan, China, India, Egypt and Russia for same papers.
Made maps for Geography Society.
War correspondent Chinese-Japanese War and Spanish-American War. Also military nurse without salary.
Made honorary member of several regiments. Decorated by President Palma of Cuba.
Was commissioner to England for Atlanta Exposition Protestant Episcopalian.
Author: Famous Families of New York, 1903.
Member of several regiments.
Married John Robert McMahon, August, 1902.