Sara Davy Armbruster

[2] When she was seventeen years old, reverses left her family poor and she was made partly helpless by paralysis.

Obliged to support herself and other members of her family she took the Irving House, a hotel of ninety-five rooms, in Philadelphia, and by good management made it a successful establishment and lifted herself and those dependent upon her above poverty.

When the Franklin Savings Fund failed in the 1880s, the building became The J. Benton Young, Real Estate Broker, in 1885.

[2] Another of her enterprises was to furnish a house for the infants of widows and deserted wives in her native city.

[2] She is buried at West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.