About William Marye
Lived 1886 – 1979 (aged 92–93). William Marye was a historian.
William Bose Marye (1886–1979) was an American antiquary, genealogist, historian, writer, and amateur archaeologist, and a prominent authority in Maryland history, genealogy, topography, and Native American archaeology.
Biography Marye was born on September 3, 1886, at Bellevue Farm near Kingsville, Baltimore County, Maryland, the only son of William Nelson Marye and Mary Bose Marye née Gittings.
Marye was a member of the committee chaired by Solon J. Buck that investigated the Horn Papers. He is credited as an early researcher of "The Great Maryland Barrens".
He never married, and died at age 93 in Baltimore on October 23, 1979.
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