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Marion Nicholl Rawson (June 24, 1878 – December 4, 1956) was an author, illustrator, artist and lecturer. ==Personal life== She was born Edna Marion Nicholl on June 24, 1878〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Edna Marion Nicholl Rawson )〕 and grew up in Scotch Plains, New Jersey.〔 She first started sewing blocks for quilts at two years of age, carefully making two squares a day. She graduated from Swarthmore College in 1898 and then taught drawing in New York City. On June 15, 1907, Edna Marion Nicholl married Jonathan Ansel Rawson, Jr.,〔 the son of Jonathan Ansel Rawson and Charlotte Fletcher Rawson.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Jonathan Ansel Rawson )〕 Jonathan, born on November 15, 1871,〔 was an Amherst College graduate and journalist. From 1907 to 1910, Jonathan was in the export business. Then, he worked in publishing and journalism. During World War II, he did YMCA war work and was a member of the home defense organization, Riverside Reserves.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Jonathan Ansel Rawson )〕 The couple had two children, Jonathan, who was born in 1910,〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Jonathan Nicholl Rawson )〕 and Priscilla.〔 In 1917, Marion Nicholl Rawsan served on the Executive Committee of the National Birth Control League. She was on the Connecticut Women Suffrage Association's Executive Board in 1918. By 1920, the Rawsons lived in Sound Beach, Connecticut. They purchased an early 19th century house in East Alstead, New Hampshire, a small town north of Keene and called it "the Little House." They maintained it in its original state, without electricity or running water, and she used it as a site of her historical researches and paintings. Throughout her life, Rawson spent the summers there. The Rawson homestead in the center of East Alstead had been in the family since 1782 but went to another branch of the family. Rawson was left a widow when her husband died suddenly in Hamilton, New York on April 29, 1928.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Jonathan Ansel Rawson, Jr. )〕 She died on December 4, 1956〔 and was buried in the East Alstead Cemetery, East Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marion Nicholl Rawson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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