When Mary Elizabeth Mitchell was born on 8 June 1884, in Allen, Kentucky, United States, her father, Fountain Gillespie Mitchell, was 55 and her mother, Sarah Paradine Holder, was 41. She died on 29 November 1971, in her hometown, at the age of 87, and was buried in Crescent Hill Cemetery, Scottsville, Allen, Kentucky, United States.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Kentucky native Nathan Stubblefield invented the radio in 1892
The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
English and Scottish: from the vernacular pronunciation in Middle English and Older Scots of the personal name Michael . See Michelson .
English and Scottish: nickname for a big man, from Middle English michel, mechel, muchel ‘big’.
Irish (County Connacht): surname adopted as equivalent of Mulvihill .
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