Henrietta Lacks was born 97 years ago on August 1, 1920 in Virginia. She was born into a very poor household and with 8 siblings. Henrietta’s mother, Eliza Pleasant, died when Henrietta was only 4 years of age during childbirth. After her mother’s unexpected death, her father moved the children to Clover, VA. Henrietta worked on her grandfather’s tobacco farm growing up.…
Oliver Goodridge and Elizabeth Hastings The Goodridge traces their roots to some of the earliest English settlers in America. They trace back to William Goodridge who was born in England and had children born in Massachusetts Bay in 1639. We will pick up the Goodridge story with Benjamin Franklin Goodridge’s parents, Oliver and Elizabeth, parents of five children. Elizabeth was born April 14, 1752 in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, and died at of the young age of 46 from breast cancer on November 25, 1798. Her ephitaph reads: Here rests a woman, good without pretense, Blest with plain reason and with sober sense; So unaffected, so composed a mind, So firm, yet soft, so strong, yet so refined.…
She was born on August 20,1920. During her childhood, Henrietta worked from sunup to sundown in a tobacco field. When Henrietta was 4 years old, her mother died. After that, her father sent all his ten kids to live with different relatives…
Susan Brownell Anthony was born in February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts her family faced financial problems because of the Panic of 1837. She decided to take it on herself to become a teacher to provide her family. During that time, they all moved to Rochestershe, New York where everything started for her. First, her family managed to become friends with Frederick Douglass who was also friends with William Lloyd Garrison.…
Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, Mother Cabrini, was an Italian saint who was sent to America to help the immigrants. She took a stand for all the immigrants by helping and taking care of them when others didn’t, and because of that, she became the first American saint. Frances, or Francesca, was born on July 15, 1850 in S’ant Angelo Lodigiano. Her parents were Agostino Cabrini and Stella Oldini. (Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus).…
Susan B. Anthony was born February 15, 1890 in Adams, Massachusetts. Susan died on March 13, 1906 Rochester, New York. Susan was the second out of seven 7 children in her family. , Hher parents were Daniel and Lucy Anthony. Anthony lived in a very proactive family they were abolitionist, temperance workers, and she was also a part of fighting for women’s rights.…
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is written by Rebecca Skloot. This book tells us about how an African-American woman whose cancer cells were used to create an immortal cell line for experiments called HeLa. Henrietta was a poor black tobacco farmer with only middle-school education. It also tells us the story behind the woman who revolutionized modern medicine. With the use of these cells scientists could study viruses, human genetics, drugs, environment stress and vitamins.…
Susan Brownell Anthony was born February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts to Daniel and Lucy Anthony. Born into a quaker family, she was the second oldest of eight. Only six remained to see their older age, one child was stillborn and the other died at the age of two. In 1826 the family moved to New York. At a young age she had shown interest in social causes.…
Who Was Nefertiti? Nefertiti could quite possibly be the most powerful queen in ancient Egypt. Nefertiti’s childhood is still a mystery. Most egyptolosts and archiogloists haven’t found actual facts to back up their statements on Nefrertiti’s childhood. Nefertiti was married to the pharoah Akenaten at about fifteen.…
Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820. She was born in Adams, Massachusetts, but moved to Rochester, 25 years later. At age three, she learned how to read and write. She soon learned the inequality of men and women.…
Stefania Podgorska was born into a Catholic family in a village near Przemysl. She was born in 1925 in Lipa, Poland. They lived on a very large farm and had grew many kinds of crops. Stefania was one of eight children in her family. Stefania helped her father farm as well as helped her mother keep the house in shape.…
Hilda Doolittle is known all over the world as H.D. H.D is the name she was published under. She was an American poet and novelist, wrote about many things. Hilda Doolittle was very interested in the ways of Greek mythology and was an inspiration imagist. Doolittle was born into the Moravian community in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She was born September 10, 1886.…
Sofka’s extraordinary life ranged from childhood in the highest court circles of Tsarist Russia to Communist Party meetings in post-war Chelsea, and ended peacefully on a remote patch of Bodkin Moor. She appeared just six weeks ago on a Time watch television documentary on Rasputin, recalling in a few moments' shots the pre-1917 Russia from which she had come so long ago. Sofka Skipwith was a hero of the Holocaust and saved 2000 French Jewish women. She was born Sofka Dolgorouky in St Petersburg in 1907.…
Emily Bronte was an amazing poet. She was even more famous for her novel Wuthering Heights, but she wrote other great poems too. She had a certain writing style that reflected on her past. She wrote many poems such as “Fall, Leaves, Fall,” “Love and Friendship,” and “Remembrance,” They all are great poems, but what caused her to write these? Emily Bronte has an interesting past and wrote great poems.…
Christina Rossetti was born in London on December 5, 1830. She was the youngest out of four kids in her family. Her father was an Italian poet and also a political exile. Rossetti's childhood was exceptionally happy. Her parents gave her so much affection and care.…