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    in London on December 26, 1884, and ran for just 24 performances with Lillian Russell in the title role and C. Hayden Coffin in his stage debut in the...
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    Archived from the original on August 5, 2012. Retrieved May 14, 2012. "R-MC 2013 KEYNOTE ADDRESS – KATIE COURIC". Archived from the original on August...
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    Snodgrass, Mary Ellen (2004). Barbara Kingsolver: A Literary Companion. McFarland. p. 13. ISBN 9781476611174. "Barbara Kingsolver profile". St Charles...
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    Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, to Joylette Roberta (née Lowe) and Joshua McKinley Coleman. She was the youngest of four children. Her mother was a teacher...
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    Cline Signs First Recording Contract". The Boot. Retrieved August 18, 2019. Ward, Ed. "Patsy Cline: A Country Career Cut Short". NPR. Retrieved August 18...
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    1853–1917" —". Familysearch.org. Retrieved September 7, 2016. Pezzoni, J. Daniel (July 1994). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination:...
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    "Women in History" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on October 6, 2017. McGee, Russell C. (2004). My Adventure with Dwarfs: A Personal History in Mainframe...
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    Order of Tents. Walker's restored and furnished home in the historic Jackson Ward neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia has been designated a National Historic...
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    Mountains in Middleburg, Virginia. Sheila Johnson was born on January 25, 1949 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, the daughter of a neurosurgeon father who worked for...
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    Short-Lived Television Series, 1948-1978: Thirty Years of More Than 1,000 Flops. McFarland & Co. p. 199. ISBN 9781476605159. OCLC 606977128. "Playing the White...
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    Shenandoah Valley. She is the daughter of Catharine Ginna (née Mellick) and McGhee Tyson Gilpin. Her father was a Princeton graduate and bred thoroughbred...
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    clothing for Davis and her children. Davis provided an introduction to Margaret McLean of Maryland, a daughter of General Edwin Vose Sumner. Although Keckley...
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    1964, Giovanni spoke with the new Dean of Women at Fisk University, Blanche McConnell Cowan, who urged her to return to Fisk that fall. While at Fisk, Giovanni...
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    Guide to Over 300 Jazz, Blues, Country and Rock Performers' Burial Places. McFarland. ISBN 9780786412709 – via Google Books. Carter, M., et al., (1975)...
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    "Astor, Lady Nancy (1879–1964)". English Heritage. Retrieved 18 August 2012. Daniel Gorman (20 August 2012). The Emergence of International Society in the 1920s...
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    the upper half of first ladies by historians. Martha Dandridge married Daniel Parke Custis on May 15, 1750, and the couple had four children, only one...
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    insurance agent for $200 (~$6,782 in 2023) in 1846. Six months later, Senator Daniel Webster intervened to buy him from the new owner and gave Jennings his freedom...
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    JSTOR 25113302. The Atlantic. November 1912, p. 683. Bloom, Edward A.; Bloom, Lillian D. (1962). Willa Cather's gift of sympathy. Southern Illinois University...
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    with the family of John Jacks Jr. Her daughters Eliza and Nancy became wards of the town and were hired out as indentured servants; her son Will was...
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    Twenty-Four Remarkable People and Events of the Civil War. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co, 2007. ISBN 0786428708 Downing, David C. A South Divided: Portraits...
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    Frazier and her husband John were portrayed in the 1947 film Unconquered, with Ward Bond as John Fraser and Virginia Campbell as Mrs. John Fraser. Edward C....
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    further delayed because her brother-in-law and intellectual mentor, George McCormack, died the following year. Thus Glasgow completed her novel in 1895...
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    journalists made similar comments. On November 4, 2009, Governor-elect Bob McDonnell of Virginia named her one of the co-chairs of his transition committee...
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