Debbye Turner Bell was crowned Miss America 1990. After her reign as Miss America, she became a veterinarian, has appeared on national television, and is a motivational speaker on youth-related and Christian topics. She was inducted into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame in 1994.
On the day Ellis Island opened on January 1, 1892, an Irish girl named Annie Moore became the very first person processed through what became the world-famous immigration center.
Irish servant to Emily Dickinson’s family
Subject of manifestations in the Great Amherst Mystery
Irish woman accused of being a witch in the 1600s
Carson Dobbins Boren and Mary Ann Kays Boren were among the first Anglo-Americans to settle in King County, Washington (U.S.)
Canadian asylum inmate labourer
1600s Huron woman
Alice was working as a nurse to provide healthcare on the Navajo Reservation when she met Lurton Knee, the owner of the Sleeping Rainbow Ranch at Pleasant Creek. She married Lurt in 1958, and became a partner in the business.
Ardra Tarbell worked at Acadia National Park for 39 years.