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Leila’s Hair Museum has more than 700 wreaths and over 2,000 pieces of jewelry, many of which date back to before the year 1900. [2] Among her artifacts are a framed assemblage of hair from every member of a chapter of the League of Women Voters, and two frames with hair shorn from sisters who both entered a convent. [3]
The following people were either born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of Aurora, Missouri. Pages in category "People from Aurora, Missouri" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Aurora was platted in 1870 by Stephen G. Elliott. [5] It was reportedly named after Aurora, the Roman goddess of dawn. [6] Galena ore was discovered in 1885 while digging a well on the farm of Thomas D. Liles in November, marking the beginning of Aurora as a mining town. [7] Mining of surface outcrops began in 1886. [8]
Aurora Township is an inactive township in Lawrence County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. [ 1 ] Aurora Township took its name from the community of Aurora, Missouri .
Lewis Shaw Coleman and his wife Mary Kate Miller Coleman, children of two prominent Lawrence County families, built the Coleman House in 1914 on a corner lot overlooking Oak Park in Aurora. Established in 1870, Aurora saw sudden population growth due in large part to a mining boom in 1885 [3] which spiked the population over 3,400 by 1890 ...
He made the 6,000-mile journey to Kansas City in December 1933 for the opening of the Gallery, then returned to China. Returning once more to the United States, he was made the Gallery's Curator of Oriental Art in 1935. By 1941, Sickman's purchases of Chinese art had given the Nelson Gallery one of the best Asian collections in the United ...
The company traces its roots back to 1890, when John Backman began making wooden caskets by hand. At the time, the Aurora Casket Company employed 20 people. In the 1920s, John's son William Backman and his son-in-law William Barrott joined the company. For decades, the company was controlled by the Backman and Barrott families.