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Jun 27, 2011 Biographies

Oliver Thomas (O.T.) Barnes was born on July 11, 1875 in Tidioute, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Thomas H and Mary Belle Peoples-Barnes. He was one of three children, including a sister, Mable and a...

PA Tidioute United States

Sylvia Elaine Gethers Wright

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Jun 20, 2011 Biographies

Sylvia Elaine Gethers Wright was one of two children born to Lois and William Gethers in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. In 1956, her family moved to Buffalo, New York, where she has since resided. After gra...

Johnstown PA United States

Vernette Coles Patterson

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Jun 19, 2011 Biographies

Vernette Coles Patterson was born August 2, 1925, in Bellevue, Pennsylvania. She attended Elementary and High Schools in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She also attended Mercy Hospital and School for Nurse...

Bellevue PA United States

Maria Coffey Graham Cook Molson

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Jun 19, 2011 Biographies

Maria Cook Molson was born on January 30, 1825 in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of James and Elizabeth Cook. Her siblings included Catharine, James, Margaret, Jane Eleanor, Samue...

Lycoming County PA United States

Samadah Johnson Nur

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Jun 17, 2011 Biographies

Samadah Nur, is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of An-Nur Creations; LLC a family owned business based in Atlanta, GA. She was born in 1950 in Erie, PA to Khadijah Nur (Willie Mae Clanton John...

Erie PA United States

Meta Warrick Fuller

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Jun 16, 2011 Biographies

Born in Philadelphia in 1877, Fuller studied at the Pennsylvania School of Industrial Arts (now the Philadelphia Museum of Art). Upon graduation, she traveled to Paris, where she studied at the Academ...

PA Philadelphia United States

Sharon Foote DuBard

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Jun 16, 2011 Biographies

Sharon DuBard is the eldest of eight children of Lonnie Charles and Mary Foote. She was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania and came to Buffalo, NY with her parents when she was very young. Sharon had pla...

PA Pittsburgh United States

Anita Porter Davis

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Jun 16, 2011 Biographies

Anita Davis was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania on October 3, 1936. She was the eldest of six children of Malcolm C. and Jessie L. Ratchford Porter. Anita moved to Buffalo, with her family, in 1943...

PA United States Williamsport

John Molson

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Jun 15, 2011 Biographies

John Molson was born in November 1812 in York, Pennsylvania. His parents were Samuel and Mary Ann (Anderson) Molson. John was one of eight siblings, which included: George, Sally, Samuel D., William, ...

PA United States York

Thomas Henry Barnes

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Jun 15, 2011 Biographies

Thomas Henry Barnes was born January 2, 1849 in Mifflin County, Lewistown, Pennsylvania. His father Henry had been a slave on the Barnes Plantation in Hagerstown, Maryland. His mother, Jane, born in L...

Lewistown PA United States

Rowena Adams Jones

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Jun 15, 2011 Biographies

Carol Hoskins Adams brings more than 35 years of experience as an Educator to her position as Dean of Interdisciplinary Programs at Monroe Community College in Rochester, New York. As a college admini...

Johnstown PA United States

Samuel Molson

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Jun 14, 2011 Biographies

Samuel D. Molson was born on October 28, 1810 in York, Pennsylvania. His parents were Samuel and Mary Ann (Anderson) Molson. His siblings were George, Sally, William, John, James, Mary Ann (Molson) De...

PA United States York