Peg Kehret: A Brief Biography

Elizabeth Keckley was born a slave in Virginia, USA in February 1818. She worked as a slave in Virginia until the age of 14 when she was moved to North Carolina. After 30 years of suffering after suffering as a slave, she eventually gained a group of supporters and she bought her freedom in 1855. She moved to Washington in 1860 and eventually worked for the parliament as a dressmaker.

The author, Linda Pastan, was born on in1932, on May 27 in New York City, New York. She was the only child of Jacob L. Olenic, a surgeon, and Bess Olneic. She had a relatively normal life growing up. Her parents were from European Jewish descent, but because of their atheistic views, they sent their daughter to a

Hillenbrand was a writer since she was born. She was born in Fairfax Virginia, May 15, 2015. She was on her swim team and when they would wait for the storm to pass the coach told them stories (bio.com). Hillenbrand wrote stories rather than doing her homework (bio.com). She impressed

Kathryn’s sister Myrtle ended up marrying a well-known evangelist by the name of Everett Parrott. The couple spent ten years on the evangelistic field before asking Kathryn, then in her middle teen years, to travel with them for summer, little did she know this was the first major step in her ministry as an evangelist. When the summer was over, Kathryn did not want to leave, so she applied and was accepted into Simpson Bible institute, from which she had biblical training. Simpson was also

Amelia Earhart’s childhood was full of adventure. She was born on July 24th (Earhart, Amelia) in Atchison, Kansas. As a child, Amelia was very adventurous and spent her time riding horses and exploring the outdoors (Stevenson 1). People back then didn’t think that girls should do things that boys were supposed to do and the other way around too. Yet she did many things

She eventually decided on what she wanted to study at the university and continued on to

She was born March 3rd, 1925. O’Connor was raised by two very Catholic parents in Savanna, Georgia. Her father, Edward Francis O’Connor, worked as a real estate agent and was a World War II veteran. O’Connors mother, Regina Lucille O’Connor, was a very social woman and a stay at home mother. O’Connor was the only child of Edward and Regina, and was always a different type of girl. She was that type of girl who would always be alone on the playground during recess, talking to herself. She didn't have many friends, her only “friends” were her chickens, who she would knit clothes for. She had an interest of fowls, especially with oddities.

Carrie Marie Underwood was born on March 10, 1983 to Stephen Underwood and Carole Underwood in Muskogee, Oklahoma. She grew up on a small farm with her two sisters, Stephanie U. Shelton and Shanna Underwood Means. Her father was a Sawmill worker in Oklahoma and her mother was an elementary school teacher. Infact Underwood’s parents almost named her Stacy and she grew up with a pet duck. Underwood always grew up listening to mostly country music, pop, and went to church with her family every Sunday.

He also refund the love from his childhood, Edith Kermit Carow. According to millercenter.org they were married in England in 1886 and moved back to New York. Aside from his first daughter he ended up having five more kids with his new wife; Theodore, Kermit, Ethel, Archibald, and Quentin.

She went to stay with her grandparents for a year when she was 4 because her mom had to travel far away with the Army, while she was

Rebecca Skloot has always had an interest in Henrietta Lacks, the African-American woman whose cancer cells were cultivated and recognized as the first imortal cell strain and used for scientific research and discovery. There isn't much information about Henrietta and her family so, Skloot wanted to tell the world about the host of the famous HeLa cells and her family. Before realizing how much backstory, emotion, and controversy exists until she starts connecting with the family and people involved with them.

Leta Stetter Hollingworth was born on May 25, 1886 in Dawes County, Nebraska to Margaret Danley and John Stetter. Leta endured many hardships throughout her childhood starting with her mother’s death and her father’s abandonment of the family leaving his daughters to be raised by their grandparents. Her father returned remarried and demanded that the children accompany him to Valentine, Nebraska. The abusive environment caused Leta to be distressed at home leading her to rely on school as her only diversion from her home life.

Patricia Campbell Hearst was born in San Francisco on February 20th, 1954. She was the middle child of five. She grew up in a safe, wealthy, inspiring home. Patty mainly grew up in Hillsborough. She attended girl schools as well as catholic schools. Steven Weed was her math tutor and after some time they became lovers and were soon to be married. After she finished her years in highschool

When the war was over, her and her husband moved to Savannah, Georgie. In 1866 she opened a school for freed black children. Shortly after the school opened, and Susie gave birth to her son, her husband Edward King passed away. In the 1870s, Susie moved to Boston and remarried nine years later. She also joined and became president of the Women’s Relief Corps, which was an association for the

She then started schooling at St. Joseph’s Catholic Elementary school at age five. She was an excellent student and even skipped kindergarten. Her best friend all through schooling was Kathy McCormick. Kathy, Kathy’s sister Laura, Kacey and Diane were inseparable. They collected little glass toys called Miniatures, read and traded Nancy Drew books, had snowball fights and played with Tammy Dolls. When Diane grew up, she was sent outside to play outside in the morning, came inside for lunch then did not return back inside until the streetlights were on.