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Benjamin S. Spencer moved from Pennsylvania to Randolph County, North Carolina, and married Peggy (Margaret) Cox. Isaac Spencer (1772- 1846), their son and a Quaker, married twice and lived in Randolph County, North Carolina. Descendants lived in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Maryland, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas and elsewhere.
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William Munroe (1625-1717/1718), a Scot, was banished to Boston, Massachusetts in 1651, after having been taken prisoner by Cromwell in the Battle of Worcester. He settled in Lexington, Massachusetts and married three times. Descendants lived in most of the United States.
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This book explores the professional, civic, and personal roles of women teachers throughout American history. Its themes and findings build from the mostly unpublished writings of many women. Clifford studied personal history manuscripts in archives and consulted printed autobiographies, diaries, correspondence, oral histories, interviews to probe the multifaceted imagery that has surrounded teaching. This work surveys a long past where schoolteaching was essentially men's work, with women relegated to restricted niches such as teaching rudiments of the vernacular language to young children and socializing girls for traditional gender roles.
Today, Purdue Extension delivers practical, research-based information that transforms lives and livelihoods. Tailored to the needs of Indiana, its current programs include Agriculture and Natural Resources, Health and Human Sciences, Economic and Community Development, and 4-H Youth Development. However, today's success is built on over a century of visionary hard work and outreach. Scattering the Seeds of Knowledge: The Words and Works of Indiana's Pioneer County Extension Agents chronicles the tales of the first county Extension agents, from 1912 to 1939. Their story brings readers back to a day when Extension was little more than words on paper, when county agents traveled the muddy back...