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Title
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Show Me Missouri Women: Selected Biographies
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Description
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Portrait and biographical description of Jessie Ann Benton Fremont (alternately spelled Jesse Fremont), or Jessie Fremont (1824-1902), a native of Virginia, the wife of John C. Fremont, and the daughter of Senator Thomas Hart Benton. Description of her life and career, growing up in Saint Louis and marrying Fremont in 1841, converting his western expedition notes into books in the 1840s, and becoming an editor and author, and after the couple's move to California in 1849 "maintaining an informal salon encouraging young writing talents such as Bret Harte," dying in Los Angeles.
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Date
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1989
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Object Type
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Book
