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May 9, 2018 Biographies

In 1874, Lena Lowery was born in Richmond Indiana. In 1902, she moved to Chandler, Oklahoma where she married George W. F. Sawner. From1902 to 1934, Mrs. Sawner was principal of Douglass School in Cha...

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Helen Wheatland Burrell

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Apr 10, 2018 Biographies

Dr. Helen Wheatland Burrell was born on April 9, 1902 in Newport, Rhode Island. She was the daughter of Dr. Marcus F. Wheatland, a noted specialist in "electro-therapeutics". Dr. Burrell was a graduat...

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Edith May Hamilton

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Apr 6, 2018 Biographies

As she got older Edith May Hamilton often dropped her first name and was known as May Hamilton. She was the daughter of Henry and Jennie A. Washington Hamilton. May was born in Niagara Falls, New York...

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Claude D. Clapp

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Feb 10, 2018 Biographies

Claude D. Clapp, the son of Marguerite Mason Clapp Shannon and Claude D. Clapp, was born in Buffalo, New York. He attended Buffalo Public Schools and, for one year, Central High School in Louisville, ...

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Ouida Eleanor Harrison Clapp

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Feb 6, 2018 Biographies

Ouida Harrison Clapp, a native of Detroit, MI, was the daughter of Celia Juliette Howard Harrison and William L. Harrison, Sr. She had one brother. A graduate of Talladega College, Alabama, and Wayne ...

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Ruth E. Tappe Scruggs

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Feb 6, 2018 Biographies

Ruth E. Tappe was born on August 4, 1893 in Lynchburg, Virginia. Her parents were James and Mary Tappe. At this time, not much is known about her family or her early life. However, she was a graduate ...

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Lanora Glasby Robinson

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Sep 4, 2017 Biographies

Lanora Robinson was a member of an early Buffalo family, who settled in Buffalo in the early to mid- 1800s. She was born on June 4, 1906 in Buffalo, New York. Her parents were Madeline Payne Glasby Mi...

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Lloyd James Hargrave

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Aug 7, 2017 Biographies

Lloyd James Hargrave was born on August 31, 1939 in Buffalo, New York. He was tenth in the birth order of Annie and Ashley Hargrave's eleven children. He was educated in the Buffalo Public School Syst...

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Juanita Cameron DeBerry

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Jul 13, 2017 Biographies

Born Juanita Cameron in Chipley, Ga., Mrs. DeBerry came to Buffalo with her family as an infant. She was a graduate of Hutchinson-Central High School and Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. She t...

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Mary Carter Smith

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Jul 13, 2017 Biographies

Mary Carter Smith was born in Birmingham, Alabama on February 10, 1919 and has resided in Maryland for 60 years. Smith is known nationwide for reviving and promoting storytelling as an art, as a teach...

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Edith B. James

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Jul 3, 2017 Biographies

Mrs. James retired as principal of the Early Childhood Center #61 and Academic Challenge Center elementary schools in Buffalo. With sixteen years of experience in running a nursery school in her home ...

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Mary Alice Worthy Brown

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Jul 3, 2017 Biographies

Mary Alice was born February 4, 1933 in Chester, South Carolina to loving parents, Willie and Geneva Worthy. She was one of five children - brothers David, Ernest and Glenn and sister, Wilma Virginia....

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