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Garret B. Kremer-Wright

Local History

Garret B. Kremer-Wright has worked as the archivist for The State Historical Society of Missouri since February 2018. He earned his BS in Historic Preservation from Southeast Missouri State University and MA in Public History from Wright State University.

Trapped ini Italy at outbreak of World War I: Marie Marguerite Oliver

Saturday, April 25, 2020

Marie Marguerite Oliver was born in Jackson on Dec. 18, 1890, the youngest child and only daughter of six children born to Robert Burett Oliver Sr. and Marie Watkins Oliver of Cape Girardeau. A bright child, she graduated from the State Teachers College in 1907 before continuing her studies at Randolph Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, and National Park Seminary in Forest Glen, Maryland, where she graduated in 1910.

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