By: Ardis E. Parshall - June 17, 2014 Cora Birdsall was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1869. Her father Isaac Birdsall came from a colonial Long Island Quaker family. Isaac migrated very gradually across the continent from his New York City birthplace to his grave on the California coast. Cora’s mother Mary Margaret Troutman, known familiarly as “Mette,” was the daughter of a Civil War veteran and the fifth generation of a German-Ame...
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