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Virginia Donaghe McClurg was born in 1857 in Virginia, the daughter of Dr. William Rice Donaghe (1830-1866), physician and surgeon in charge of an hospital for Union soldiers at Shiloh, and Susan Boylston Hardin Richardson (1832-1913). Among her ancestors there are the founders of Harvard and
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Colorado" (1886), "Picturesque Utah" (1888), "Seven Sonnets of Sculpture", "Colorado favorites" (1882), "A Colorado wreath" (1899), and more. She wrote an History of El Paso County. Her husband published, after her death,
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National Irrigation Congress for the best "Ode to Irrigation." It was set to music in 1903 and sung by the Salt Lake Tabernacle Choir at the Madison Square Garden.
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Colorado Cliff Dwellings Association with the support of 5,000 member Colorado State Federation of Women's Clubs. The Association was instrumental in creating the
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Government decorated her with the title of Officier de Instruction Publique of France and awarded her the Gold Palm of the French Academy.
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Women of the West; a series of biographical sketches of living eminent women in the eleven western states of the United States of
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has been called the "Women's Park" because its creation was due almost solely to the work of two women, Virginia
Donaghe McClurg and
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