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Suggs, Eliza, 1876-1908 Shadow and Sunshine

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09938 Author/Creator: Suggs, Eliza, 1876-1908 Place Written: Omaha, Nebraska Type: Book Date: 1906 Pagination: 1 v. : 96 p. ; Order a Copy

One book entitled Shadow and Sunshine by Eliza Suggs dated 1906. Elizabeth "Eliza" Gertrude Suggs, born with Osteogenesis imperfecta (commonly called "brittle bone disease") was not anticipated to live past childhood. Her father, a former slave, became a minister with the Free Methodist Church after Emancipation and moved the family west to Orleans, Nebraska. Despite her fragile health, she gained an education and went on to become a prominent temperance lecturer.

Suggs, Eliza, 1876-1908

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