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35:, the eldest of her parents' seven children. Her father, John Harrington, a hatter, was from Ireland (he was known as Harrington the Hatter); her mother Mary Agnes Noonan Harrington was American-born. Julia Harrington attended Boston Girls' High School and graduated from the
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