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04-14 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
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B. 04-14-1849, Isabella Stewart Gardner, art collector, began
collecting art with her husband. Continued collecting after his death,
designed the mansion to house it and then donated the finished museum which
bears her name to the people of Boston in 1903. It houses one of the world's
great collections of Dutch and Renaissance paintings. Her will specifies
the collection remain exactly as she placed it. An absolutely facinating
place and this tourist loved it!
B. 04-14-1866, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, educator best known as
the teacher of Helen Keller.
Event: 04-14-1910, Dr. Elinor McGrath graduated from the Chicago
Veterinary College to become the first woman veterinarian in the United
States.
Event: 04-14-1912, the Unsinkable Margaret "Molly" Brown,
earns her knickname by rowing a group of passengers away to safety from
the sinking Titanic.
Event: 04-14-1975, Madine Steele of Tallahassee was suspended from
her teaching position for participating in ERA activities (marching
in a parade.)
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