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The end. Let's talk about Francis Glessner Lee. But first

let's drop her into history. In 1931 Lucille Thomas became the first woman to purchase a professional baseball team, the Topeka Senators.

The first use of a rocket for postal delivery happened when 102 pieces of mail successfully traveled almost two miles over a mountain in Austria.

Both Alka-Seltzer and the Modern Electric Shaver hit the market.

The U.S. officially declared the Star Star Spangled Banner as the National Anthem,

and Nevada legalized gambling.

Jane Adams received the Nobel Peace Prize and Brazil's Christ the Redeemer statue was completed.

Dracula with Bella Legossi, Frankenstein with Boris Karloff, and the comic Dick Tracy all premiered.

Ida B Wells and Anna Pavlova both passed away.

James Earl Jones, William Shatner, Barbara Eden, Dan Rather, and Rita Moreno were all

born and in 1931 Francis Glessner Lee used her wealth for good and science as she

dove into the world of forensic medicine.

Francis Glessner was born on March 25th, 1878 in Chicago, the youngest of the two children of John

Jacob Glesner and Francis Macbeth Glesner.

Papa was the son of a newspaper publisher in Zanesville, Ohio. At 20, he was

deep into the sales of farm equipment and also manufacturing of the same and a lot of innovation.

But as he was getting settled, he boarded with the Macbeth family.

This family was an extraordinarily educated family, perhaps not one of wealth, but of wealth of the mind.

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