page_title: Eda Hurd Lord
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Eda Hurd Lord / Personal life
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context_page_description: Eda Isadore Hurd Lord was a successful businesswomen, one of the first in Evanston, Illinois, in the United States, and is responsible for plotting the city's land and developing the residential spaces.
context_section_description: On April 29, 1873, she married George Sterling Lord (1850-1916), a wholesale druggist for Lord, Owen & Co., a company started by his father Thomas Lord. She is the mother of Eda Lord Dixon (1876-1926). Her other children are: Jeannie Henry Ayers (b. 1875), Harvey Hurd Lord (1878-1920), Thomas Lord (1880-1951), Kate Kimball Lord (1882-1908), Sterling Lord (b. 1884), Robert Owen Lord (1886-1968), a banker, Margaret Lord Burnham (1892-1979), George Willis Lord (1894-1977). She is the grandmother of Eda Lord and Suzanne Lord Folds.
  She was a talented musician and a patron of arts. She moved to California in 1921.
  She died on February 26, 1938, at La Jolla, California, and is buried at Lake Forest Cemetery, Lake Forest, Illinois.
caption: Children of Eda Hurd Lord
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