Mother seton
Saint Elizabeth Ann (Bayley) (“Mother Seton”) 1774–1821, U.S. educator, social-welfare reformer, and religious leader: first native-born American to be canonized (1975).
Ernest Thompson, 1860–1946, English writer and illustrator in the U.S.
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Ernest Thompson. 1860–1946, US author and illustrator of animal books, born in England
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