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This Presbyterian missionary worked to improve the lives of people living in poverty near Morgantown during the Great Depression.
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What Army nurse from Roane County spent more than three years in an internment camp in the Philippines during World War II?
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Hinton native Sylvia Mathews Burwell served as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services in this president's administration.
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Laiken Blankenship is the first woman to serve as editor of what publication.
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The mother of which president was supposedly born in present-day Mineral County?
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Which Wheeling-based author wrote the novels The Hills Step Lightly, The Gods and One, The Mountain People, and Roseanna McCoy.
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West Virginia's Madonna of the Trail is one of 12 identical statues erected across the country honoring pioneering women. Where is West Virginia's statue located?
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Clay Countian Sylvia O'Brien was known for playing this instrument.
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This woman publicly disputed the Betty Zane legend and, through her friendship with Henry Clay, helped route the National Road from Wellsburg to Wheeling--right by her mansion.
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This Clarksburg native's children's book An Edge of the Forest won the Aurianne Award of the American Library Association.
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