| Title: |
Mary Irwin
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
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| Collection: |
Personal Oral History
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| Description: |
Mary Irwin was born in 1922, the second of five children. The children were all born Canadian citizens, although they spent their childhoods in the United States, their father being a Professor of Theology at the University of Chicago. During the war Mary attended college in Toronto, Ontario. Her elder brother, Robert, served in the Canadian Armed Forces, as did her husband, Jack Coleman. She is the mother of three, and currently lives in Brunswick, Maine. ---Patrick Thornhill, March 17, 1997
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| URL: |
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~amnornes/Thornhill.html
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1997 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Irwin, Mary, 1922-
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1922
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| Speaker occupation: |
Military wife
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| Age at speaking: |
75
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| Document date: |
1997
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| Interviewer: |
Thornhill, Patrick
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| Historical events discussed: |
World War II, 1939-1945
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| Locations discussed: |
Michigan; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Biography; Interviews; Local history; Michigan; Michigan--History; North America; Oral history; United States; United States--History; World War II, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0029303-32469
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