- MARCH 14, 1889 - Marguerite was born in Lapeer, Michigan
to Shadrach and Ruby Lofft
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- 1902- The Lofft family left Lapeer and moved to Pennsylvania
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- 1904- Marguerite entered Girl's High School and was hired
to sing in the Presbyterian Church for $1 a week. Her singing
teacher, Madame Suelke told her "You have a very fine voice
and can go far, but I'm afraid you will be like your mother.
You will marry and have 6 children. "(pg.46) She did!
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- 1908- Marguerite met John Dailey deAngeli "He was immediately
friendly and I think we knew from that moment that each belonged
to the other... "(pg. 63)
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- 1909- Marguerite auditioned for the Oscar Hammerstein Opera
Company. Her parents dissuaded her.
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- APRIL 2, 1910 - - Dai and Marguerite were married in Toronto.
"We were young, the world lay before us, we were happy...
"(pg. 63)
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- 1911- Their first son, John Shadrach (Jack) was born.
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- 1912 - Arthur Craig was born and the family traveled to Lapeer
for Grandma and Grandpa Lofft's 50th wedding anniversary.
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- 1913 - Ruby Catherine was born, but died tragically the next
year. "We picked up the pieces and tried to think only of
them (the boys) and to remember that there is no separation in
love... "(pg. 81)
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- 1916- The deAngeli's moved to Detroit where Marguerite found
the time for a few art lessons.
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- 1918- Marguerite's bout with the flu did not impede the birth
of daughter Nina.
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- 1921 - Marguerite met Maurice Bower, an illustrator, who
became her mentor. "Little by little my drawings improved...I
never doubted that someday I would succeed in doing illustration
that would be acceptable to some publisher. "(pg 93-94)
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- 1922 - Marguerite was hired to illustrate Presbyterian and
Baptist school papers. "From that day in 1922, except for
a showing down during the Depression, there had been an almost
unbroken chain of illustrations for Sunday school paper, magazines,
and books. But it was 14 years and two more children before I
began writing my own books "(pg. 95)
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- 1925 - Harry Edward (Ted) was born.
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- 1928 - The last child, Maurice Bower (Maurey), was born.
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- 1929 - The Depression brought hard times to the deAngeli's.
"Dai had no work and it seemed as if all sources of income
had dried up, except occasional commissions for Sunday school
papers." (pg. 107)
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- 1935 - Using her own children as models, Marguerite wrote
her first book, Ted
and Nina Go to the Grocery Store.
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- 1938 - Copper-Toed Boots , stories of her father's
boyhood in Lapeer, Michigan, was published.
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- 1950 - Marguerite was overwhelmed when Door
in the Wall won the Newbery Medal. "This honor was
so far beyond my wildest dream that I could hardly keep my feet
on the ground." (pg, 188)
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- 1960 - Dai and Marguerite celebrate their 50th Wedding Anniversary.
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- 1969 - Dai's heart failed him eight months before their 60th Wedding Anniversary.
1971 - Marguerite's autobiography, Butter at the Old Price
, was published. The dedication reads, "To my children.
It wasn't all for them, but without them there would have been
little point".
- 1979 - Governor Milliken declared her 90th birthday Marguerite
deAngeli Day.
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- 1981 - The Lapeer City Branch Library was renamed the Marguerite
deAngeli Branch Library.
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- June 16.1987 - The end of a long and rewarding life came
to one of our greatest children's author/ illustrator on
(Quotations taken from Marguerite's Autobiography, Butter
at the Old Price
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Marguerite deAngeli Collection