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Elizabeth Simpson was born in Brunswick, Maine on June 3, 1833. Mary Simpson Sperry moved to California after she married Austin Sperry, founder of the Sperry Flour Company, in 1862; together they had four children. Following her husband's death in 1881, she became the company's senior partner
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