Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Merkel, Florence
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- Tully Merkel
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
c. 1890 - 1950
History
Florence Merkel, nicknamed Tully, was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia around 1890. In 1914, she married Andrew Doane Merkel. She and her husband would go on to lead a group of poets called The Song Fishermen, hosting salons and meetings in the home in Halifax. They had three children. Tully Merkel passed away in 1950.