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2 unusual facts about Mary E. Surratt Boarding House


Mary E. Surratt Boarding House

In April, 2011 the house gained some attention with the release of a film about Mary Surratt, The Conspirator by director Robert Redford.

Mary Surratt House

Mary E. Surratt Boarding House, in Washington, D.C., also known as Mary E. Surratt House


Consumers Cooperative Services

It was founded in 1920 by a group of socially minded women, among them Mary E. Arnold, Mabel Reed, Dorothy Kenyon, Mary LaDame and Ruth True.

Mary Butler

Mary E.L. Butler (1874–1920), Irish writer and Irish-language activist

Mary E. Britton

In 1859, along with older sister Julia Britton Hooks (later known as a gifted musician and educator, as well as Berea's first African American teacher), she was sent to Louisville, Kentucky, and was placed in the late Mr. WM.

Mary E. Cobb

The industry which she pioneered would outpace her own company under her son's direction who lacked the innovative speed of new innovators like Max Factor and Elizabeth Arden.

Mary E. Mann

It was directed by Orla O'Loughlin and written by Steven Canny.

Mary E. Sweeney

When the Morrill Act passed in 1862, the "mechanic arts" became an important curricular reform movement for the U.S., offering wider access to education which until that time had focused on preparing young men for white-collar professions.

A model for child development laboratories, the research and model programs coming out of this institution eventually led to the development of national standards for the federal Head Start Program.

Born in Lexington, Kentucky on October 11, 1879, to Dr. W. O. Sweeney and Margaret Prewitt Sweeney, Mary E. Sweeney attended Transylvania University where she received her bachelor's degree in 1899.

Wilson Magnet High School

Mary E. Clarke, was a director of the Women's Army Corps and the first woman to attain the rank of major general in the United States Army.


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