"_____Blanche, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, at her grandfather's house on November 23, 1857,..." (pg. 195)
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"...Blanche Mills, who was born in Cincinnati Nov. 23, 1857.... She was educated at Iowa college at Grinnell, and at Miss Fessenden's school at Stamford, Conn., spending two years in the musical conservatory in Leipsig and later in Paris."