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A pioneer may, in fact, be someone who does not or did not garner very much attention at all. It could be a person who, though not necessarily a leader or prominent individual, nevertheless made notable contributions or advancements in his or her field. Leila Fern Thompson was such a person. While working from the …
Paul Herman Apel was born in 1882 in the central German city of Gottingen. Departing from Hamburg, Germany, on board the S. S. Pretoria, he arrived in New York City on May 7, 1899. The passenger manifest noted that Apel’s ticket had been purchased by his mother, Antoinette Apel, and that his final destination was …
Born into a wealthy family on November 7, 1875, Eleanor Hague studied privately in Italy and France. During the first decade of the 20th century, she was a member of the People’s Choral Union in New York (formed in 1897 by Dr. Frank Damrosch) in which she assisted in the work of instruction. Later, she …