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Mildred Bryant Jones (16 November 1887 – 15 February 1966) [1] was an African American musician and teacher, [2] an officer of the National Association of Negro Musicians, and a friend of W. E. B. Du Bois, [3] who was said to have had 'a special passion and admiration' for her. [4]
Roberta Dowse-Walker, the former First Lady of Illinois, died in December 2006 from colon cancer. [30] Walker later married Roberta Nelson, who was 14 years his junior, and was divorced in 1989 while he was in prison. [citation needed] In 2007 he resided in Escondido, California, with his third wife, Lillian Stewart. In 2007, they adopted a son ...
Roberta Lee Raymond, née Roberta Wolin (November 16, 1938 – May 7, 2019), also known as Bobbie Raymond, [1] was an American actress, sociologist, civil rights worker, artist, and writer. She was married to mathematician Richard Gustavus Larson, PhD and had one son Charles D. Raymond, and a grandson Trevor William Raymond.
Later that year, the family settled in Marion, Illinois, where Robert and his brother Ebon Clarke Ingersoll were admitted to the bar in 1854. A county historian writing 22 years later noted that local residents considered the Ingersolls as a "very intellectual family; but, being Abolitionists, and the boys being deists, rendered obnoxious to our people in that respect."
Henry W. Austin, Illinois state legislator and businessman [16] David Axelrod, political strategist and former White House official; Ralph H. Barger, Illinois state legislator [17] Bruce Barton, author and advertising pioneer; congressman from New York (1937–1940) Redd Griffin, Illinois state legislator (1980–1982) [18]
Roberta Frank (born 1941) is an American philologist [1] specializing in Old English and Old Norse language and literature. She is the Marie Borroff Professor Emeritus of English [ 2 ] at Yale University .
Roberta Wilson (1896–1977) was an American actress who appeared in several silent films. She had three sisters, and all the young women would eventually act in films. Roberta and her older sister Lois Wilson were born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, while her two youngest sisters were born in Chicago, Ill
Roberta Karmel (born 1937) was the first female commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. [70] Camille Y. Lilly, member of the Illinois House of Representatives,e lives in Galewood. [71] Robert F. McPartlin (1926–1987) was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1960 until his bribery indictment in 1976 ...