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Margaret Cousins

Margaret Cousins was an editor and author of short stories and novels for children. In her career, she worked at Good Housekeeping and McCall’s. She was also senior editor at Doubleday and was fiction and book editor at The Ladies’ Home Journal. Cousins is the author of the Landmark Books Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphia and The Story of Thomas Alva Edison. She died in 1996.
The Story of Thomas Alva Edison
Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphia

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The Story of Thomas Alva Edison
Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphia

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