1886 - 1986
Mary Paxton Keeley
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| Birthday |
2nd June, 1886
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| Birthplace |
Independence, Missouri, US
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| Died |
6th December, 1986
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| Place of Death |
Columbia, Missouri, US
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| Zodiac Sign |
Gemini
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Mary Gentry Paxton Keeley (June 2, 1886 – December 6, 1986) was an American journalist. Born in Independence, Missouri, she grew up next door to Bess Wallace, future wife of President Harry S. Truman, and the two became close friends. Following her mother's early death from tuberculosis, she graduated from Manual Training High School and studied first at Hollins College and the University of Chicago, before joining the first class of the Missouri School of Journalism in 1907. While studying there, she was romantically involved with one of her teachers and childhood friends, Charles Ross, whom she intended to marry. Paxton graduated in 1910, the program's first female graduate and, according to the dean, "the first woman in all the world to hold a degree in journalism".
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