Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 100 Years Ago, 1926: Mrs. Margaret T. Gartside, a resident of Chester for nearly a century and well known here, but who is now living with her daughter, Mrs. Horace G. Kurtz, of Reading, is celebrating her 101st birthday today. Mrs. Gartside is the widow of John Gartside, who, for many years, was engaged in the cotton and woolen manufacturing business at Fifth and Penn streets, Chester. The old Gartside home was located at Fifth Street and Concord Avenue.