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  • [[Category: Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated]]
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  • ...s that he could heal other people, but it was not really recognized by him or others until he was in his late 20s, when he attended a spiritualist church [[Category: Multiple or Unspecified]]
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  • ...when he was actively homosexual, but was also married and had a family. He died of AIDS. Who's Who in America, 1996
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  • ...d]] by an uncle in [[Pennsylvania]]. He graduated from college in 1794 and became a teacher, and was licensed by the Presbyterian church to preach in 1799. H [[Category: Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated]]
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  • ...irth. He was orphaned at the age of four and became a ward of the Children's Aid Society, which sent him on an Orphan Train to Noblesville, Indiana, whe ...boy. After marriage, Burke and his wife settled in North Dakota, where he became successively a bookkeeper, bank cashier, county treasurer of Cass County, a
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  • ...flat in Islington, London. Her childhood was happy in spite of her father's alcoholism. [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
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  • ...adult, he was described as the richest man in the world) - and his mother died in 1859. He was sent to Harrow, where he won prizes for English and Latin v ...rt to Catholicism, and was the model for the central character in Disraeli's novel Lothair.
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  • ...portrait.jpg/479px-Robert_Byrd_official_portrait.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''U.S. Senator Robert Byrd of [[West Virginia]], 2005'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.o Byrd was born Cornelius Calvin Sale, Jr. His mother died in 1918 or 1919 during the flu pandemic and his father sent him to live with and be [[
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  • ...ent coming of the Messiah, and moved to Cairo, then Tripolitania, where he became personal physician to Osman Pasha, the bey of Tripoli. When Rabbi Nathan of ...this important and interesting episode in Jewish history we owe to Cardozo's published books and surviving letters.
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  • Cerullo was born the fifth child of a Jewish family but his mother died when he was very young and his father placed him in an Orthodox orphanage. [[Category: Unmarried Mother, Single Parent (Mother or Father) Unable to Cope]]
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  • ...facts seem to be that her father was a wastrel and a vagabond, her mother died in 1895, and Gabrielle and a sister were then abandoned in an [[orphanage]] "Michael Moffa's Tribute to the Legendary House of Chanel: Coco Chanel Biography." [Includes
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  • ...to help save time in her expanding business empire, and she got her pilot's license in 1932 (it took her only two days to go solo and 20 to get her lic ...ld more speed and altitude records than any other person in the world, man or woman.
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  • The story he told of himself was that he became bar mitzvah at 13, studied for the rabbinate and was ordained. ...n their Jewish identity and religious practices. He was soon converted and became an evangelist himself, preaching to other Jews. He studied at a Christian s
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  • Commager was orphaned as a child and raised by his mother's father in Toledo and Chicago. He became a famous college professor, teaching at New York University, Columbia Unive
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  • [[Category: Exile or Persecution (religious, Political or Social)]] [[Category: War or Persecution]]
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  • Cornwell was born Patricia Daniels to a married couple. When she was five or seven (sources differ) her father abandoned the family for another woman. H [[Category: Estrangement from Adoptive or Foster Family]]
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  • ...rktown (1781), George and Martha adopted his six children (that is, Martha's grandchildren), including young George [[Washington]] Parke and Nelly Custi ...ok of recipes and formulae which in many way parallels the work of Britain's Mrs. Beeton.
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  • ...dia/commons/6/6f/Portrait_de_Dante.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''Dante Alighieri's portrait by Sandro Botticelli'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.}} [[Category: Exile or Persecution (religious, Political or Social)]]
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  • Davies' father died when he was a child and when his mother remarried he was [[adopted]] by his ...Adoption/Fostering when Parent Began New Relationship, Conflict With Step-parent]]
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  • ...s Hospital, Carsharlton, then transferred six months later to St. Lawrence's Hospital, where he remained for the rest of his life. During the first few Roberts listened to Deacon's dictation and repeated it to Sangster, who wrote it down in longhand. After
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  • Dean was born to a married couple but when his mother died of cancer in 1940 his father sent him to [[Indiana]] to live with his grand ...t a cause, the angry youth of the post-war period, the first teenagers. He died in an automobile accident.
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  • [[Category: Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated]]
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  • ...lrichs, who was shunned by her family for marrying beneath her. His mother died only six days after he was born, and his busy father gave him into the cust ...ent back to live with his remarried father and step-mother, but his father died in 1951. He grew up surrounded by the rich, famous and powerful, and made h
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  • ...His mother died of childbirth fever days after he was born, and his father died in 1547, leaving Edward King of England at the age of 9. His [[guardian]] and Lord Protector was his mother's brother, Edward Seymour, who initially controlled the country, but he was o
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  • ...War of 1812, a family friend to whom his father sent him after his mother died. ...ell. David Glasgow Farragut: Courageous Navy Commander. (Chicago: Children's Press, 1991) (People of Distinction Biographies)
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  • ...er of prophecy. When his training was complete he went up to the High King's palace and was made leader of the Fianna. ...ser Barbarossa and King [[Arthur]]. He is credited with building the Giant's Causeway between [[Ireland]] and Scotland.
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  • ...t of Latter-day Saints]] (Mormons) five months after her birth. Her mother died in 1855 and her father was then sent away on church work, so until she was ...he [[Utah]] Women's Press Club, and a local Republican Party official. She died aged 104.
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  • ...739 and his father in 1740), raised in Swansea and educated in Bristol. He became a Baptist minister in England and wrote a number of poems and hymns, many o [[Category: Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated]]
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  • Frelinghuysen, whose father died when he was three, was the birth nephew and adoptive son of Theodore Frelin [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]
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  • In early adulthood he became an ardent abolitionist and spent the decades fighting slavery, dedicating h [[Category: Unmarried Mother, Single Parent (Mother or Father) Unable to Cope]]
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  • Gaskell's mother died before she was one month old, and she was raised partly by an aunt, but her [[Category: Other or Unknown Reasons for Serial Placement]]
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  • ...; but his influence on English literature, particularly through the Beggar's Opera, has been considerable. Bear, Richard. "The Beggar's Opera: John Gay: Transcribed, with an Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography
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  • ...ee sons born in Philadelphia to Jewish immigrants from Minsk. Their father died in 1918 in the flu pandemic. When their mother remarried her new husband in ...d the idea, and The Producers, 1968, starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, became an instant and permanent cult comedy classic and won Brooks an Oscar; the B
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  • ...ee sons born in Philadelphia to Jewish immigrants from Minsk. Their father died in 1918 in the flu pandemic. When their mother remarried her new husband in ...d the idea, and The Producers, 1968, starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, became an instant and permanent cult comedy classic and won Brooks an Oscar; the B
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  • ...muel_Goldwyn_001.jpg/392px-Samuel_Goldwyn_001.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''1914 or earlier'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.}} ...ess. As a movie mogul he worked hard for a number of charities. In 1947 he became the only Hollywood producer to publicly condemn the witch-hunts US House of
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  • ...rmers near Johannesburg, and had two born-to children. His adoptive father died when he was eight. His relationship with his mother was never very satisfac [[Category: Estrangement from Adoptive or Foster Family]]
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  • Another source says that his mother died when he was five. His alcoholic father sent him and his three siblings to l [[Category: Unmarried Mother, Single Parent (Mother or Father) Unable to Cope]]
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  • ...s mother moved to London to remarry. He probably never saw his father, who died/was murdered before 1907. ...erican culture and in 1906, aged 17/18 he emigrated to [[Canada]] where he became a fur trapper. He married five times, not always bothering to divorce his c
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  • Hoover's father died when he was six and his mother when he was nine. He and his brother and sis ...sion on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government. In 1921 he became secretary of commerce under Harding and held the same post under Coolidge.
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  • ...born in [[Germany]] to a married couple. When he was one or two his mother died of cancer and his father, unable to cope alone, left him in an [[orphanage] [[Category: Late or Traumatic Learning of Adoption]]
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  • ...d also died by 1817. He was taken in by neighbors, the Wheeler family, who became his parents until 1823. ...ay Saints]] (Mormons) in 1831. From 1832 he held offices in the church. He became an apostle at the age of 30. In 1838 he was excommunicated, but was reinsta
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  • He became archbishop of Seville in about 600, succeeding his brother. He was famous f [[Category: Adoptees/Fosterees from Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Birth Families]]
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  • ...and Anna Ivanovna's nephew. She died the following day, and the baby Ivan became Czar of all the Russians. [[Russia]] was effectively ruled by his mother, ...ren were born, but Ivan was separated from his parents in 1744. His mother died in 1746.
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  • ...ackson.jpg/413px-Stonewall_Jackson.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''General Jackson's "Chancellorsville" Portrait, taken at a Spotsylvania County farm on April 2 ...and little Thomas was sent to live with relatives. His mother in any case died in 1831, leaving Thomas an [[orphan]] at the age of six, to be raised by a
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  • Jenkins' birth parents both died when he was young in Liverpool (father in 1887 and mother in 1888) and he w [[Category: Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated]]
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  • ...a young child and brought up by his grandparents, but his grandmother also died when he was a boy. He contracted tuberculosis as a child and as a teenager ...rk. He also became a communist and later went to live in the USSR where he became an associate and translator of Lenin.
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  • ...she began to have visions. In 1206 she was professed as a nun. In 1230 she became superior of the convent but there was considerable opposition, and she was [[Category: Exile or Persecution (religious, Political or Social)]]
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  • ...randmother, when he was not at boarding school. Very soon after his father died his mother remarried, but it was a disaster and she and the children ran aw ...o become one of the greatest poets of the English language, even though he died very young.
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  • ...d by her parents, although she returned in a year or two, while his father died in the war. ...dained as a Lutheran pastor, and trained at the seminary in Tübingen, but became sidetracked by mathematics and astronomy (he also had disagreements with so
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  • ...when he was four. His father, a policeman who had been a member of Hitler's SS, was a violent man who abused the boy so badly that he was taken to an [ ...ed and he was himself was seriously wounded. He escaped to [[Algeria]] but became disillusioned in 1977 and left the movement, providing anti-terrorist infor
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