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Anna Melinda Clary Johnson was born on July 5, 1848, in Boston, MA. In 1873, Anna married Charles McCulloch Beecher. Around 1885 the Beechers moved to New Westminster, where Charles began his association with the Royal City Planing Mill Company. Apparently Anna also started collecting Northwest Coast baskets at that time, c. 1885, when she was given some by local indigenous women in exchange for clothing. She eventually collected over two hundred, before her death in January 1911. Her son Frederick donated his mother's collection to MOA in 1952. (She was listed as Anna J. Beecher at that time.)

Born: 1849
Died: 1911-01