By all accounts, including her own, Elizabeth Anne Bloomer had an enchanted childhood. Born in Chicago and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan, she loved to dance, play football with the boys, and ...

Wilfred Thrush (A Son-in-Law) Broadway Bloomer Girl 1944 ...

Thanks to the official cause of death, his life insurance policy paid out, helping the Bloomers weather the Depression. Historical//Getty Images A young Betty Ford (then Betty Bloomer) dressed as ...

Thanks to the official cause of death, his life insurance policy paid out, helping the Bloomers weather the Depression. Nearly 50 years later, Betty would come close to following in her father’s ...