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1. Title:   Bird Hulings 3 Jean jm3490.ged
2. Title:   1a jm3490.FTW
3. Title:   Mark Bird Line 9-2005.FTW

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a. Note:   "Mrs. May Yancey Lesley, a pioneer Tampan who wrote Florida's compulsory schooling law, die d yesterday at home at 719 S. Delaward Ave. She was 92. Mrs. Lesley had lived in Tampa sinc e 1895. Once a teacher, she initiated and wrote the compusory schooling law in 1919. It wa s introduced in the Florida legislature as a local option law for counties. But, it was so w ell received that, before the end of a year, every county had voted its provisions into effec t. Mrs. Lesley assisted a national suffragette leader in establishing local branches of th e League of Women Voters in the 1920s...She graduated from the old Hillsborough High School a nd the Normal Institute for Teachers. She taught school in Tampa and Anclote, near Tarpon Sp rings....." from obituary[Bird Hulings 3 Jean jm3490.ged] "Mrs. May Yancey Lesley, a pioneer Tampan who wrote Florida's compulsory schooling law, die d yesterday at home at 719 S. Delaward Ave. She was 92. Mrs. Lesley had lived in Tampa sinc e 1895. Once a teacher, she initiated and wrote the compusory schooling law in 1919. It wa s introduced in the Florida legislature as a local option law for counties. But, it was so w ell received that, before the end of a year, every county had voted its provisions into effec t. Mrs. Lesley assisted a national suffragette leader in establishing local branches of th e League of Women Voters in the 1920s...She graduated from the old Hillsborough High School a nd the Normal Institute for Teachers. She taught school in Tampa and Anclote, near Tarpon Sp rings....." from obituary[Mark Bird Line 9-2005.FTW] [1a jm3490.FTW] "Mrs. May Yancey Lesley, a pioneer Tampan who wrote Florida's compulsory schooling law, die d yesterday at home at 719 S. Delaward Ave. She was 92. Mrs. Lesley had lived in Tampa sinc e 1895. Once a teacher, she initiated and wrote the compusory schooling law in 1919. It wa s introduced in the Florida legislature as a local option law for counties. But, it was so w ell received that, before the end of a year, every county had voted its provisions into effec t. Mrs. Lesley assisted a national suffragette leader in establishing local branches of th e League of Women Voters in the 1920s...She graduated from the old Hillsborough High School a nd the Normal Institute for Teachers. She taught school in Tampa and Anclote, near Tarpon Sp rings....." from obituary


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