Bertha Harwood, the daughter of Elvis and Helen A. Harwood, was born in Illinois, but grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. She was the founder, in 1908, and first president of the Atlanta Musical Association. In 1912, Miss Harwood married Milton Wallace Arrowood, president of the National Motorcycle company. Later in 1916. the couple moved, with their daughter, Dorothy, to Wilmette, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Mrs. Arrowood was involved with the suffrage movement in Atlanta. She was involved in music both in Atlanta and Chicago. Later still they moved to Greenwich, Connecticut where all the scrapbooks were damaged in a tidal wave in 1938. The 1910 scrapbook which covered the Atlanta Musical Association was so badly damaged by insects and damp that it had to be destroyed. Additional biographical information about Bertha Harwood (Mrs. Milton W.) Arrowood has not been determined.