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Mary Greenhow Lee : ウィキペディア英語版 | Mary Greenhow Lee
Mary Greenhow Lee (September 9, 1819–May 25, 1907) was an American diarist from Virginia. During the Civil War, Lee was a Confederate activist who kept a journal of events occurring in Winchester. According to the Virginia Department of Historic Resources (VDHR), Lee's writings "survives as one of the most informative records of daily life in Civil War Virginia." ==Early life== Lee was born September 9, 1819, in Richmond, Virginia to a wealthy socialite family. Her father was businessman Robert Greenhow, a former mayor of Richmond and member of the Virginia General Assembly, and his second wife, Mary Lorraine Charlton Greenhow of Yorktown. Greenhow owned a mercantile firm as well as land throughout the city and surrounding Henrico County. Lee's childhood home was a large octagonal two-story structure near the State Capitol built by former Secretary of State and Virginia governor Edmund Randolph. At least a dozen slaves were forced to assist running their home. Lee had two siblings. James Washington Greenhow, a brother two years her senior, grew up to become a lawyer. Robert Greenhow Jr., twenty-one years her senior, was her step-brother. Robert worked at the State Department during Andrew Jackson's presidency and Lee would spend time in Washington, D.C. with him and his wife, Rose O'Neal Greenhow. Rose and Lee had similar outgoing personalities and became close friends. Lee would accompany Rose to social events in Washington including tea with former First Lady Dolley Madison and an event where Lee flirted with President Martin Van Buren's son. In 1843, Lee moved to Winchester after marrying Hugh Holmes Lee, a lawyer and distant cousin. He died October 10, 1856, but his two unmarried sisters, Antoniette and Laura, and four nephew and nieces from a deceased sister continued living with Lee, along with five slaves.〔
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