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    Edith Wilson (née Bolling, formerly Galt; October 15, 1872 – December 28, 1961) was the first lady of the United States from 1915 to 1921 and the second...
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    Virginia. Their son, John Bolling, was born in 1676. John Bolling married Mary Kennon and had six surviving children, each of whom married and had surviving...
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    have had mixed responses on Cline's Four Star material. Robert Oermann and Mary Bufwack of Finding Her Voice: Women in Country Music called the label's choice...
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    "Trailblazing African-American women to be honored at William & Mary Commencement". College of William & Mary. March 23, 2018. Archived from the original on May 11...
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    was the eldest of three children. Her parents, Walter Fletcher Murray and Mary Campbell Van Horne, were of Scottish and Dutch descent, and attended West...
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    Archived from the original on 2012-07-21. Retrieved May 3, 2010. Snodgrass, Mary Ellen (2004). Barbara Kingsolver: A Literary Companion. McFarland. p. 13...
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    Richardson Mary Virginia Terhune 2007 Mary Willing Byrd Maybelle Carter Laura Lu Scherer Copenhaver Mary Alice Franklin Hatwood Futrell Mary Jeffery Galt Sheila...
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    and Deborah Norville as co-anchor of Today; Boyd Matson, Garrick Utley, Mary Alice Williams, and Maria Shriver as co-host of Sunday Today; and Connie...
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    New Garden, Guilford County (present-day Greensboro), North Carolina, to Mary Coles and John Payne Jr. Her parents had married in 1761, uniting two prominent...
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    name deriving from Cadair Idris, a Gwynedd mountain.: 3  Her mother was Mary Virginia Boak, a former school teacher. By the time Cather turned twelve...
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    Mary Draper Ingles (1732 – February 1815), also known in records as Mary Inglis or Mary English, was an American pioneer and early settler of western...
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    Frances Dandridge (1744–1757), Elizabeth Aylett Henley (1749–1800), and Mary Dandridge (1756–1763). As the oldest of eight, including one sister that...
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    William Costin and moved to Washington, D.C. Costin was named as cousin of Mary Simpson (c. 1752-March 18, 1836), of New York in her will. The 85 dower slaves...
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    Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved June 9, 2021. O'Leary, Mary E. (May 27, 2008). "Yale graduates 3,100 under sunny skies". New Haven Register...
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    Cambridge University Press. p. 269. ISBN 978-1-139-53668-4. Mary Kinnear (2004). Woman of the World: Mary McGeachy and International Cooperation. University of...
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    society commissions. While in England she photographed the stage actress Mary Anderson, who was a friend of her mother. In 1899, Johnston was commissioned...
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    originally established as a burial society in 1867 in Baltimore, Maryland by Mary Prout. The Independent Order of St. Luke ministered to the sick and aged...
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    lived in Washington, D.C. She was the personal dressmaker and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln. She wrote an autobiography. She was born enslaved, to her father...
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    colonist and land owner in the Commonwealth of Virginia. He and his wife, Mary Isham, were sometimes referred to as the "Adam and Eve" of Virginia. During...
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    as free and enslaved African Americans, including Mary Richards Bowser. Mary Jane Richards, aka Mary Elizabeth Bowser, was reputedly a formerly enslaved...
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    Richardson Mary Virginia Terhune 2007 Mary Willing Byrd Maybelle Carter Laura Lu Scherer Copenhaver Mary Alice Franklin Hatwood Futrell Mary Jeffery Galt Sheila...
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