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Through widowhood, several moves, and difficulties in getting equipment, Grace Herold still succeeded in creating fifteen original porcelain dolls of high caliber.

Grace Simpler’s Family and Early Life

Simpler was born in June 1896 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the third child of Erasmus and Amanda Simpler. Her father was an engineer and her mother was a nurse who took in sewing and taught her young daughters to sew at an early age. In an interview with R. Lane Herron in 1985, Grace Herold said “she used to let us thread her needles and give us scraps to make dolls’ clothes. When we went to the store, we would buy small china-head dolls and Frozen Charlottes to dress”.