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Appendix A
Rebecca "Carrie" Jane Billings Everson, Inventor
1842-1914
An Industrial Hall of Fame nominee
Jack mentions his father's affinity for mining stocks (page 2), but doesn't have much to say (after all, it was his biography) about his mother's claim to fame as inventor of the flotation process, widely used in the mining industry to separate value-containing minerals from worthless base rock. It was an invention ahead of its time; and while she was issued a patent, she never made a ...
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A Real Vermonter
By Corinne Lawson
Dora Frances Tompkins was born December 12, 1855, in Barre, Vermont, the eldest child of Julia (Holmes) and Ira Hard Tompkins. She was followed by a brother George and two younger sisters, Nellie and Julia.
On December 9, 1862, her father enlisted in the Vermont Volunteers 11th Heavy Artillery in the Civil War. It was three days before her 7th birthday. Two years later, her father was mortally wounded at the battle of Cedar Creek, on October 19, 1864 ...
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Nellie Mighels Davis
At a glance:
Born: September 10, 1844
Died: June 24, 1945
Maiden name: Verrill
Race/nationality/ethnic background: Caucasian
Married: Henry Rust Mighels, Sam P. Davis
Children: four Mighels children, two Davis children
Primary city and county of residence and work: Carson City (Ormsby)
Major fields of work: journalism (newspaper reporter, publisher)
Other role identities: wife, mother, civic worker
Biography:
Nellie Verrill was born September 1 ...
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No. 1245:
SARAH BAGLEY
by John H. Lienhard
Click here for audio of Episode 1245.
Today, a woman claims a job market for other women. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
Madeleine Stern tells about Sarah Bagley, who went to Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1836, to work in the new spinning mills and in the Hamilton watch factory [1]. Lowell was just hitting i ...
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Dee Aker
International columnist to WIC
Dee Aker, Ph.D., began a sabbatical leave fall of 1995 from the University for Humanistic Studies in San Diego California, where she has been president since 1993, with attendance of the UN Fourth World Conference for Women in Beijing and her initial feature column for WIC, "Where Women Are Concerned";
Dee has been an international correspondent to the Women's Times in San Diego, as well as produced and hosted her own program on commercial telev ...
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Biographies of Women Mathematicians
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Winifred Edgerton Merrill
September 24, 1862 - September 6, 1951
Winifred Edgerton, the first American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics, was born in Ripon, Wisconsin. She was a direct descendent of Elder William Brewster of Plymouth Colony. She received her early education from private tutors before earning her B.A. degree from Wellesley Colle ...
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