Born in Calvert County, Maryland, on September 21, 1788, the daughter of Walter Smith, a prosperous Maryland planter and veteran officer of the American Revolution, and Ann Mackall-Smith, "Peggy" was raised amid refinement and wealth.
Margaret and her husband Charles co-founded what is now called the DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago in 1961.
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She was named Chicago Park District Commissioner by Harold Washington in 1985, a position she held until 2010.
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Polk was born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania around 1732 to William and Margaret Taylor Polk.