Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Nellie Taylor Ross"First Womem Govener"

       Nellie Taylor Ross was born November 29, 1876 in St. Joseph Missouri. Her mother, Elizabeth Blair Green Taylor, was a descendent from a family that claimed a distant kinship with George Washington. While visiting relatives in Tennessee, she met and fell in love with a young lawyer, William Bradford Ross He moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming, before marrying Nellie Taylor Ross in 1902. She then became the first woman Governor. She died in 1977.
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