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Connie Cain was born on March 8, 1948 in Clarksburg, West VirginiaG. She died on June 20, 2011, at age 63, in California, United StatesG.

Anna Elizabeth O'Hare was born on May 16, 1880 in EnglandG. She and Francis James McCormick were married on September 14, 1910 in OhioG. She died on May 29, 1954, at age 74, in New York, United StatesG.

Reporter and columnist for the New York Times. From 1936 to 1954 she wrote three columns each week on foreign affairs, which were widely read in the United States, Europe and Asia. Her specialty was to explain both national leaders and the ordinary people who gave them significance. She was:

~ first woman on the New York Times editorial board (1936)
~ first woman to win the Pulitzer prize for correspondence (1937)
~ "freedom editor" on the editorial board of the New York Times 1936-1954
~ Chevalier of the Legion of Honor
~ recipient of honorary degrees from Columbia, Fordham, Ohio State, Dayton and New York Universities, and from Smith, Wellesley, Middlebury, Villanova, Lafayette, Elmira, Manhattan, Mount St. Vincent, Wilson and Rollins Colleges and the New Jersey College for Women.

Her death was reported on the front page of the New York Times, and she received tributes from President Eisenhower, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, Cardinal Francis Spellman of New York, and others.

She interviewed and analyzed for the Times: Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Churchill, De Valera, Dolfuss, Popes Pius XI and XII, Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower

She wrote several books:
The World at Home
Vatican Journal 1921-1954
The Hammer and the Scythe: Communist Russia Enters the Second Decade (1928)
St. Agnes Church. Cleveland. Ohio. An interpretation
Europa e Stati Uniti secondo il New York Times : la corrispondenza estera di Anne O'Hare McCormick, 1920-1954

President Eisenhower called her "a truly great reporter, respected at home and abroad for her keen analysis and impartial presentation of the news developments of our day. She will be greatly missed by all the members of the newspaper profession and the hundreds of thousands of readers who followed her column in the New York Times." British Foreign Minister Eden called her a "champion of all good causes." French Foreign Minister Bidault said "this woman... has left us at a moment when her courage and her clairvoyance would have been particularly precious for us."
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0516.html

Her papers are at the New York Public Library, http://archives.nypl.org/mss/1937. (Research):https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0516.html.

Elizabeth Carney was born on August 7, 1915 in PennsylvaniaG. She and Thomas Eugene Kanavy were married. She died on November 18, 1944, at age 29, in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PennsylvaniaG.

Regis Francis Kanavy was born on December 7, 1931 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PennsylvaniaG. He and Kathleen Ferrie were married. He died on September 8, 1985, at age 53, in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PennsylvaniaG.

Eugene Kanavy was born on October 7, 1933 in PennsylvaniaG. He died on January 4, 1974, at age 40, in California, United StatesG.

Thomas Kanavy was born on February 24, 1939 in PennsylvaniaG. He died on March 20, 2000, at age 61, in Las Vegas, Clark County, NevadaG.

John Kanavy was born on April 4, 1915 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PennsylvaniaG. He died on July 27, 1916, at age 1, in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PennsylvaniaG.

William Kanavy was born on April 7, 1917. He died on May 5, 1918, at age 1, in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PennsylvaniaG.

Paul James Kanavy was born on July 18, 1921 in PennsylvaniaG. He died on March 16, 1981, at age 59, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CaliforniaG.

Kathleen Ferrie was born in 1937. She and Regis Francis Kanavy were married. She died on October 15, 2003, at age ~66, in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PennsylvaniaG.

Kathleen M. Kanavy was born on November 1, 1966 in PennsylvaniaG. She died on April 11, 2017, at age 50, in PennsylvaniaG.

Patrick Ryan was born in 1885 in IrelandG. He and Germain B. Grimblot were married on August 4, 1920 in Grays Harbor County, WashingtonG.

William Grant Heverly was born in 1869 in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, United StatesG. He died in 1879, at age ~10, in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, United StatesG.

Mamie Heverly was born in 1871 in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, United StatesG. She died in 1932, at age ~61, in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, United StatesG.