Margaret Hartman Markoe Bache
(1770-1836)
BIRTH
November 7, 1770
PLACE
Saint Croix, Danish West Indies
NAME
Margaret Hartman Markoe
DEATH
May 28, 1836
PLACE
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
FAMILY
HUSBAND
Benjamin Franklin Bache
(1769-1798)
CHILDREN
Hartman Bache
(1798-1872)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
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AWARDS
Margaret Hartman Markoe Bache (1770–1836), born on St. Croix and raised in Philadelphia, was a printer and newspaper proprietor. After Benjamin Franklin Bache died in the 1798 yellow fever epidemic, she assumed ownership of the Aurora with four sons to raise. She kept the newspaper operating through labor disputes and political hostility with editor William Duane, whom she married in 1800. She was the wife of Franklin’s grandson, distinct from Sarah Franklin Bache.
EARLY LIFE
Margaret Hartman Markoe Bache was born on Nov 7, 1770 in Saint Croix, Danish West Indies. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Margaret Hartman Markoe Bache is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Margaret Hartman Markoe Bache died on May 28, 1836 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Margaret Hartman Markoe Bache Duane died in Philadelphia on May 28, 1836. Her later life followed her marriage to William Duane and her important role in sustaining the Aurora newspaper after her first husband Benjamin Franklin Bache's death. The yellow-fever epidemic of 1798 had killed Benjamin soon after the birth of their fourth child, but that earlier catastrophe was not Margaret's own final illness. The consulted biography does not identify a fatal disease in 1836 or provide a continuous account of her last symptoms and care. Her newspaper work and family responsibilities establish the life that preceded the death, while a specific diagnosis cannot be inferred from the medical history of her first husband. The supported endpoint is her Philadelphia death at about sixty-five, with the details of treatment, bedside attendance, and private farewells left unverified.
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