Thomas Snowden, a freed slave, and Ellen Cooper, a house servant, met and married in Knox County. They had nine children, of whom seven survived infancy. Although Thomas and Ellen Snowden were both illiterate, the children attended white schools and learned to read and write. The Snowdens were primarily farmers by trade, with their homestead located at Clinton, Ohio, a small village north of Mount Vernon. In July 1856, the 39-year-old Ellen Snowden became the head of household upon the death of Thomas Snowden, 53. The family soon had ...

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family life:

See: grihastha ashrama, extended family, joint family.

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Born in Chicago, Illinois, Murray is the fifth of nine children in a large, Irish Catholic family. Three of Murray's siblings are also actors: John Murray, Joel Murray, and Brian Doyle-Murray. All four Murray brothers appeared in the 1988 film Scrooged. He was raised in Wilmette, Illinois and graduated from Loyola Academy. He is a partner with his brothers in Murray Bros. Caddy Shack, a restaurant chain in Florida and South Carolina that is managed by a former chief operating officer of the Hard Rock Cafe. The chain's theme ref ...

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Kornberg married Sylvy Ruth Levy, also a biochemist of note, on November 21, 1943. She worked closely with Kornberg and contributed significantly to the discovery of DNA polymerase. The day after he was awarded the Nobel prize, she was quoted in a newspaper as saying "I was robbed". They had three sons: Roger David Kornberg (1947) (currently Professor of Structural Biology at Stanford University), Thomas Bill Kornberg (1948) (who discovered DNA polymerase II and III in 1970 and is now a biochemist at UCSF), and Kenneth Andrew Kornberg (1950) (an architect specialising in the design of biomedical ...

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Arthur Kornberg, Arthur Kornberg - Early life, Arthur Kornberg - Scientific research, Arthur Kornberg - Family life, Arthur Kornberg - Books

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Brunson met his future wife Louise in 1960, and they married in August 1962. Louise became pregnant and later that year, he discovered a tumor in his neck. When it was operated on, the surgeons found that the cancer had spread and declared it incurable. They felt that an operation would prolong his life enough for him to see the birth of their baby, so they went ahead with it, but after the operation, no trace of the cancer could be found.[3] The doctors ...

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Doyle Brunson, Doyle Brunson - Early life, Doyle Brunson - Poker career, Doyle Brunson - Family life, Doyle Brunson - WSOP Bracelets, Doyle Brunson - Notes

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Jia's first wife Lady Li was a daughter of Li Feng (李豐), who was suspected by Sima Shi to have conspired with the emperor Cao Fang in 254 and executed. By that point, Lady Li had borne Jia two daughters -- Jia Bao (賈褒) and Jia Yu (賈裕). Because Jia wanted to show his loyalty to Sima Shi, he divorced Lady Li, who was exiled. He then married Guo Huai (郭槐), who bore him two daughters as well -- Jia Nanfeng and Jia Wu (賈午). She also bore him a son, Jia Limin (賈黎民) -- but her unusual jealousy and cruelty would doom her so ...

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Jia Chong, Jia Chong - Early life and career during Cao Wei, Jia Chong - Career during Jin, Jia Chong - Family life, Jia Chong - Death

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Sadler was born in Spencer, Indiana, to Samuel C. Sadler and Sarah I. (Wilson) Sadler on June 24, 1875. His father Samuel C. Sadler was a graduate of the Chicago Conservatory of Music and was a teacher and performer. After the death of ome of the Sadlers daughters, William Sadler was home-schooled due to his parents fear of disease. He was raised as a Seventh Day Adventist. At age 14 he went to Battle Creek, Michigan where he worked as a bellboy and salesman for John Harvey Kellogg, at the Seventh Day Adventist Sanitarium. In 1893, Ke ...

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William S. Sadler, William S. Sadler - Family life, William S. Sadler - The Urantia Book, William S. Sadler - Criticism

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Momiji's mother rejected him when he was first born because he was a member of the zodiac. She refused to even glance at her son, and she began to lose her mind. Later, Hatori Sohma erased her memories of Momiji so she could begin to recover. When asked if she would regret it, she responded by saying that the greatest regret she had was that "that creature" had come out of her body. Momiji was listening outside the door. Now, whenever she sees Momiji at his father's company building, she thinks he is the son of someone else. Tohru is like Mo ...

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Momiji Sohma, Momiji Sohma - Family life, Momiji Sohma - Gallery, Momiji Sohma - External link

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Shimon Peres is married to Sonya (nee Gelman), and has a daughter, Tzvia (Tziki) Walden-Peres, a linguist, and two sons, Yoni (born 1952) and Chemi, chairman of Pitango Venture Capital, one of Israel’s largest venture capital funds. Peres is the first cousin of actress Lauren Bacall (born Betty Joan Perske). ...

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Shimon Peres, Shimon Peres - Early life, Shimon Peres - Political career, Shimon Peres - 2005 Labour Primaries, Shimon Peres - Leaving Labour, Shimon Peres - Family life, Shimon Peres - Awards and interests, Shimon Peres - Books

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Aamir went directly into films from college and made his first big hit playing ... a college boy. Publicists tried to position him as a teen idol, every college girl's dream. In order to do so, they buried all evidence of his 1988 marriage to Reena Datta, who (though not a professional actress and already married to him at that time) made a brief appearance in a song sequence in his first hit film, Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak. It was big ...

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In 1572, in Knudstrup, Tycho fell in love with Kirsten Jørgensdatter, a commoner whose father, Pastor Jorgen Hansen, was the Lutheran clergyman of Knudstrup's village church. Under Danish law, when a nobleman and a common woman lived together openly as husband and wife, and she wore the keys to the household at her belt like any true wife, their alliance became a binding morganatic marriage after three years. The husband retained his noble status and privileges; the wife remained a commoner. Their children were legitimate in the eyes of the ...

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Tycho Brahe, Tycho Brahe - Early years, Tycho Brahe - Death of his father, Tycho Brahe - Family life, Tycho Brahe - Nova, Tycho Brahe - Heliocentrism, Tycho Brahe - Uraniborg Stjerneborg and Benátky nad Jizerou, Tycho Brahe - Tycho and astronomy, Tycho Brahe - Tycho and Astrology, Tycho Brahe - Tycho's moose, Tycho Brahe - Tycho's death, Tycho Brahe - Named after Tycho

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He has been married twice, to Sue Levine and Mary Speerschneider. Russ and Sue Feingold married in 1977 and had two children, Jessica and Ellen, before divorcing nine years later. Russ married Mary Speerschneider (also previously divorced) on January 20, 1991. Mary (née Erpenbach) had previously been married to Timm Speerschneider, a Madison attorney, with whom she had two children: Sam and Ted. On April 11, 2005, Russ and Mary Feingold jointly announced that they would be seeking a divorce. [1] When not in Washingt ...

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Russ Feingold, Russ Feingold - Early life and education, Russ Feingold - Career, Russ Feingold - Family life, Russ Feingold - Campaigns, Russ Feingold - Senate, Russ Feingold - Possible Presidential run, Russ Feingold - Bills and policy positions, Russ Feingold - Campaign finance reform, Russ Feingold - Government spending, Russ Feingold - Patriot Act, Russ Feingold - Gun issues, Russ Feingold - Ideological rankings, Russ Feingold - Committee Assignments, Russ Feingold - Electoral History, Russ Feingold - Notable Facts & Figures

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Whiteread was born in London and raised, until aged seven, in the Essex countryside when the family then returned to London. She is the third of three sisters - the older two being identical twins; they spoke a secret language and part of Whiteread's personality was formed by having to "fight her corner" in a two-against-one situation [1]. Her mother, Pat Whiteread, was also an artist, she died in 2003 aged 72, the death having a profound impact on Rachel's work. Her father was a geography teacher, polytechnic administrator and lifelo ...

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Rachel Whiteread, Rachel Whiteread - Family life, Rachel Whiteread - Works, Rachel Whiteread - Ghost 1990, Rachel Whiteread - House 1993, Rachel Whiteread - Untitled One Hundred Spaces 1997, Rachel Whiteread - Water Tower 1998, Rachel Whiteread - Untitled Monument 2001, Rachel Whiteread - Holocaust Monument aka Nameless Library 2000, Rachel Whiteread - Embankment 2005

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The Constitution of Ireland guarantees the rights of the family and the institution of marriage. However, the reality is that social and economic change in recent years has brought about significant changes in family life in the Republic. According to figures published in September, 2004, 31% of all births in the Republic of Ireland occur outside marriage. This compares with 5% in 1980. The average age of mothers having their first child was 30 and ...

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Culture of Ireland, Culture of Ireland - Land use and settlement patterns, Culture of Ireland - Agriculture and rural life, Culture of Ireland - Townslands villages parishes and counties, Culture of Ireland - Land ownership and land hunger, Culture of Ireland - Towns and cities, Culture of Ireland - Family life, Culture of Ireland - Holidays and festivals, Culture of Ireland - Cultural institutions organizations and events, Culture of Ireland - Institutions and organisations, Culture of Ireland - Events, Culture of Ireland - Religion, Culture of Ireland - Minority cultures, Culture of Ireland - Ulster Scots, Culture of Ireland - The Travellers, Culture of Ireland - New immigrants, Culture of Ireland - Literature and the arts, Culture of Ireland - Food and Drink, Culture of Ireland - Food in early Ireland, Culture of Ireland - The potato in Ireland, Culture of Ireland - Food in Ireland today, Culture of Ireland - Pub culture, Culture of Ireland - Language, Culture of Ireland - Media, Culture of Ireland - Print, Culture of Ireland - Radio, Culture of Ireland - Television, Culture of Ireland - Film, Culture of Ireland - Sport

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She is the daughter of a succesful soccer player, Lei Clijsters and a Belgian gymnastics champion, Els Vandecaetsbeek. She announced her engagement to long-time partner Australian player Lleyton Hewitt in November 2003, but they split up in October 2004. Her current boyfriend, the 27-year old American Brian Lynch, is a professional basketball player with the team of Clijsters' home town Bree. She also has a younger sister named Elke, who like her sister was an accomplished junior player, and who finished 2002 as the ITF World Junior Doubles champion, but back injuries forced Elke to retire ...

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Kim Clijsters, Kim Clijsters - Tennis career, Kim Clijsters - Coaches, Kim Clijsters - Retirement, Kim Clijsters - Records, Kim Clijsters - Trademark Move, Kim Clijsters - Family life, Kim Clijsters - Grand Slam achievements, Kim Clijsters - Titles 41, Kim Clijsters - Singles 30, Kim Clijsters - Singles Finalist 15, Kim Clijsters - Performance Timeline, Kim Clijsters - Doubles 11

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Lady Thatcher's husband, Sir Denis Thatcher, died in June 2003. The couple had been married for fifty-two years and had two children, twins, on 15 August 1953. Her son, Sir Mark Thatcher, has been dogged by a series of controversies from 1982 when he went missing in the Sahara Desert to January 2005 when he was fined three million rand and received a four-year suspended jail sentence in South Africa over funding an aircraft intended for use in a planned coup d'etat in Equatorial Guinea. Her daughter, the journalist and commentator Hon. Carol Thatcher, won the fifth series of the British realit ...

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Margaret Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher - Early life and education, Margaret Thatcher - Political career between 1950 and 1970, Margaret Thatcher - In Heath's Cabinet, Margaret Thatcher - As Leader of the Opposition, Margaret Thatcher - As Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher - 1979–1983, Margaret Thatcher - 1983–1987, Margaret Thatcher - 1987–1990, Margaret Thatcher - Fall from power, Margaret Thatcher - Post-political career, Margaret Thatcher - Legacy, Margaret Thatcher - Family life, Margaret Thatcher - Titles and honours, Margaret Thatcher - Titles from birth, Margaret Thatcher - Honours

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Charles married Mary Darnall, known as Molly, on June 5, 1768. They had seven children before Molly died in 1782, but only three survived infancy: Mary, Charles Jr., and Kitty. Mary married to Richard Caton, and Charles lived with them and their four children after his wife died. Charles Jr. (sometimes known as Charles Carroll of Homewood because he oversaw its design and contruction) married Harriet Chew and lived in Philadelphia. Harriet was the daughter of Benjamin Chew, the chief justice of Pennsylvania, and her sister married John Eager ...

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Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Charles Carroll of Carrollton - Biography, Charles Carroll of Carrollton - Monuments and memorials, Charles Carroll of Carrollton - Family life, Charles Carroll of Carrollton - Carroll in Fiction

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Although initially happy, the marriage was undermined by emotional pressures. Dixie suffered from acute alcoholism, which hastened her premature death from ovarian cancer in Holmby Hills, California, aged 41. Her four sons also suffered from the long term effects of heavy drinking. The film "Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman" (1947) was based on her life. Although the characters names were changed, she was portrayed by Susan Hayward. ...

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Reagan grew up in Los Angeles and then Sacramento, while his father was Governor of California from 1967 to 1975. He attended Yale University but dropped out in 1976 after one semester. At that time, his father was running in the Republican Presidential primary against incumbent Gerald Ford, and Reagan disliked the attention he received at Yale. He joined the Joffrey Ballet in pursuit of a lifelong dream to become a ballet dancer. In a widely published photograph, Ron is shown after a performance wearing tights and full stage make-up, gettin ...

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Ron Reagan, Ron Reagan - Life and family, Ron Reagan - Political activities

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Claudius was born Tiberius Claudius Drusus on August 1, 10 BC in Lugdunum, Gaul, on the day of the dedication of an altar to Augustus. He was the third child of Nero Claudius Drusus and Antonia Minor, the two older children being Germanicus and Livilla. Antonia may have had two other children as well, but both died young. His maternal grandparents were Mark Antony and Octavia, Caesar Augustus' sister. His paternal grandparents were Livia, Augustus's third wife, and Tiberius Claudius Nero. During his reign, Claudius revived the rumor that his father Dru ...

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