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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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    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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    2012-07-21. Retrieved May 3, 2010. Snodgrass, Mary Ellen (2004). Barbara Kingsolver: A Literary Companion. McFarland. p. 13. ISBN 9781476611174. "Barbara...
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    blood or through marriage, to Thomas Jefferson, Martha Washington, Letitia Tyler, and the Harrison family. Edith was the seventh of eleven children, two...
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    Leadership". Harvard Business Review. Retrieved January 14, 2019. "Mary Tyler Freeman Cheek McClenahan". Library of Virginia. Retrieved November 5, 2011. National...
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    Upshur and Thomas Walker Gilmer, Tyler's future father-in-law David Gardiner and three others were killed, Tyler and Madison escaped unharmed. She was...
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    December 3, 2010. Retrieved September 7, 2019. Browne, David; Dolan, Jon; Freeman, Jon; Betts, Stephen L.; Leahey, Andrew; Hudak, Joseph; Grow, Kory; Ross...
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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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    "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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    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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    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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    with Judge Staines were published in the May 1845 issue of The Granite Freeman and the January 1847 issue of The Liberator, both abolitionist newspapers...
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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    East End haunts". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved July 20, 2010. McBride, Mary Ellen (July 18, 1973). "Willa Cather's Prose Captured Pittsburgh". Pittsburgh...
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  • (1906–1992), Arlington County, computer scientist and rear admiral Mary Tyler Freeman Cheek McClenahan (1917–2005), Richmond, civic leader Benita Fitzgerald Mosley...
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    Silent Film Star Mary Fuller. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishers. pp. 18–22. ISBN 978-1-4766-4184-3. OCLC 1239322450. Wallenborn, White McKenzie, M.D. (1999)...
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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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    Tyler Freeman Cheek McClenahan G. Anne Richardson Mary Virginia Terhune 2007 Mary Willing Byrd Maybelle Carter Laura Lu Scherer Copenhaver Mary Alice Franklin...
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    (1963) (12 stories, with an introduction by editor Richard Meeker) The Freeman and Other Poems (1902) The Woman Within (published posthumously in 1954)...
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    Tyler Freeman Cheek McClenahan G. Anne Richardson Mary Virginia Terhune 2007 Mary Willing Byrd Maybelle Carter Laura Lu Scherer Copenhaver Mary Alice Franklin...
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    Tyler Freeman Cheek McClenahan G. Anne Richardson Mary Virginia Terhune 2007 Mary Willing Byrd Maybelle Carter Laura Lu Scherer Copenhaver Mary Alice Franklin...
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  • Tyler Freeman Cheek McClenahan G. Anne Richardson Mary Virginia Terhune 2007 Mary Willing Byrd Maybelle Carter Laura Lu Scherer Copenhaver Mary Alice Franklin...
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  • Mary Sue Terry (born September 28, 1947) is an American Democratic politician from the Commonwealth of Virginia. Terry was born the daughter of Nathaniel...
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    Tyler Freeman Cheek McClenahan G. Anne Richardson Mary Virginia Terhune 2007 Mary Willing Byrd Maybelle Carter Laura Lu Scherer Copenhaver Mary Alice Franklin...
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