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    Mary G. Harris Jones (1837 (baptized) – November 30, 1930), known as Mother Jones from 1897 onward, was an Irish-born American labor organizer, former...
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    Barbara Kingsolver (category Novelists from Virginia)
    of Virginia Literary Awards". Library of Virginia. Retrieved March 10, 2014. "Virginia Women in History 2018 Barbara Kingsolver". www.lva.virginia.gov...
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    of William Henry Foote's account in Sketches of Virginia: Historical and Biographical, based on Mary's son's manuscript. It was further publicized in 1886...
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    Patsy Cline (born Virginia Patterson Hensley; September 8, 1932 – March 5, 1963) was an American singer from the state of Virginia. She is considered one...
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    Pocahontas (category Bolling family of Virginia)
    notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. She was the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief of a network of...
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  • The College of William & Mary (abbreviated as W&M) is a public research university in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States. Founded in 1693 under a royal...
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    Katherine Johnson (category Schoolteachers from West Virginia)
    awarded an honorary doctorate by the College of William & Mary. In August 2018, West Virginia State University established a STEM scholarship in honor...
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    School in Winnetka, Illinois, in 1965. She began her broadcasting career in Virginia, where an internship during her junior year at Hollins College led to a...
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    by Mary Frances Watts Jones in memory of her husband George Morgan Jones; it opened in June 1908 as the second oldest public library in Virginia. The...
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  • he taught mathematics at The College of William and Mary, in Williamsburg, Virginia, where Jones Hall is named for him. He appears to have been born in...
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