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Spinster aunts, part two: Ruth Esther Rockwood (1889–1969)

Looking up the school where Ruth taught immediately changed my view of her career: it turns out that Omaha's Technical High in the 1920s was new, large, and very much talked about.

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Spinster aunts, part one: Grace Duncan (b.1885)

In 1913 Grace emigrated, unaccompanied, to America, heading straight for the burgeoning industrial paradise of Detroit.

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