Emery May Holden Norweb (Mrs. R. Henry Norweb) was born on November 30, 1895 in Salt Lake City, Nevada. She was the granddaughter of Liberty Emery Holden who was the founder of the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper, still published today. She was the daughter of Albert Fairchild Holden who gave her an interest in numismatics. She was married to R. Henry Norweb, Sr. in Paris in 1917, where she was driving an ambulance and working in French hospitals. The couple’s first child, R. Henry Norweb, Jr. was born in August 1918 in a cellar during an air raid. Mrs. Norweb was president of the Cleveland Museum of Art from 1962 to 1971. She was a member of the American Numismatic Association for almost 70 years, joining in 1914. Much of their collection was sold in the late 1980s by Bowers and Merena, but they made several donations, including their Brasher Doubloon which was given to the ANS in 1969 and their 1913 Liberty Nickel that was donated to the Smithsonian in 1978.