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Ida Vera Simonton
Ida Vera Simonton (September 13, 1870 – July 5, 1931) was an American writer and lecturer. She spent two years in Gabon in 1906 and 1907, and wrote and lectured about her experiences for American audiences. Early life Simonton was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Jefferson Wilson Simonton and Lydia Ellen Hoover Simonton. Career Simonton toured Gabon in 1906 and 1907, working with American primate researcher Richard Lynch Garner in Gabon; she timed the trip partly to escape a subpoena to testify at the murder trial of Harry Kendall Thaw, Harry Thaw.Rich, Jeremy. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0424.2010.01593.x, "Ida Vera Simonton's Imperial Masquerades: Intersections of Gender, Race and African Expertise in Progressive-Era America." Gender & History 22.2 (2010) : 322-340. She wrote critically, and sometimes in lurid detail, about brutality in rubber camps, about sexual exploitation in colonial households, and about western missionaries in Africa, in a 1909 series of ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Western Pennsylvania, the second-most populous city in Pennsylvania behind Philadelphia, and the 68th-largest city in the U.S. with a population of 302,971 as of the 2020 census. The city anchors the Pittsburgh metropolitan area of Western Pennsylvania; its population of 2.37 million is the largest in both the Ohio Valley and Appalachia, the second-largest in Pennsylvania, and the 27th-largest in the U.S. It is the principal city of the greater Pittsburgh–New Castle–Weirton combined statistical area that extends into Ohio and West Virginia. Pittsburgh is located in southwest Pennsylvania at the confluence of the Allegheny River and the Monongahela River, which combine to form the Ohio River. Pittsburgh is known both as "the Steel City" for its more than 300 steel-related businesses and as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
