A One-Name Study for the BARNUM/BARNHAM Surname
She never married.
From the Toronto Daily Star, February 26, 1921: Miss Barnum Passes, Head of "Blink Bonnie." Miss M. H. Barnum, one of Toronto's best known social workers, and superintendent of the "Bonnie Blink" boys' home, was buried at her old home, Grafton today. For years each summer she had taken hundreds of children to her home at Grafton. During the summer months her stately and dignified figure was a familiar sight at the Union Station where she had in charge scores of poor little boys and girls whom she was taking to her home in Grafton for a two weeks' summer outing. When summer was over and the school bells rang again, she closed the home and returned to the home on Victoria Street where she had many boys whom she was caring for and training herself. Miss Barnum belonged to a fine old family of Grafton. Her father was the late E. S. Barnum, and her brother, E. S. Barnum is on the staff of the city engineering department. A sister, Mrs. Henry Ruttan Jones lives off Avenue Road.
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