Fantastic info on Mary Dunbar

Thank you so much, Margie! My daughter is beginning to wish she had an Autumn Leaf set like the one that means so much to your family. Perhaps we'll start collecting, now that we realize the family connection. The link to Cornell was especially fascinating. I'll have to dust off my research skills and see what else I can find. Thank you so much for the information.
I do not have a Mary Dunbar doll, but saw one recently on e-bay. I have "hinted" that it would make a great Christmas present for me! I wish I had met Mary. She died half a dozen years before I was born; I have, however, been to her grave site at Forest Lawn in the Hollywood Hills of Southern California, near where I grew up. I also visited the site in France where her first husband, James Reed, my dad's father, was killed during the first world war. He is buried at the St. Mihiel Cemetery with other American soldiers who died in France.
Mary was quite a character, from what I have learned from my dad (who died in 1992), my mom, and a friend of hers with whom I corresponded for awhile.
Again, thank you for the information, Margie!
Naida Reed Grunden