October 4, 1880
Elizabeth Dabney Langhorne Lewis is born in Lynchburg to John Henry Lewis and Elizabeth Dabney Langhorne Lewis. 1901 1903 1904 1907
Elizabeth Dabney Langhorne Lewis earns a doctorate in economics from the University of Berlin for her dissertation,
A Contribution toward the Development of the Cotton Industry in the South of U.S.A. 1910s 1910
Elizabeth Dabney Langhorne Lewis prepares a report,
The Beginnings of Child Labor Legislation in Certain States: A Comparative Study, for the Department of Commerce and Labor. June 4, 1910 October 1910
Elizabeth Dabney Langhorne Lewis founds the Lynchburg Equal Suffrage League, the second local league founded in the state. Lewis s daughter, Elizabeth Dabney Langhorne Lewis Otey, is probably a cofounder.
Fairfax County trying to put a cap on flags flown on property in the county Michael Quander
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The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors is voting on an ordinance on Tuesday that would limit the size, number, and how high flags can be flown.
This ordinance is part of Fairfax County’s zoning modernization project.
Currently, property owners can have up to three flags per lot with no size limits.
There are no maximum height limits, and people can have flagpoles in their front yards.
Under the proposed legislation, city planners want to limit the height of flagpoles at homes to 25-feet.
Adair was born on November 9, 1884, at Red Sulphur Springs in Monroe County, West Virginia. She was the second of three daughters and fifth of eight children of Lewis Cass Adair and Rebecca Sidney Taylor Adair. The family moved to Richmond, where Adair attended Richmond Female Seminary and graduated from Richmond High School. At age seventeen she took a clerical job at an insurance company and enrolled in a course for teachers at Richmond High School. Adair and her sisters, who also became teachers, probably chose careers in education in emulation of other family members.
Adair began her career teaching at Elba Elementary School in Richmond in 1904. During the next fifteen years she taught at Nicholson, Robert Fulton, and Bellevue elementary schools and took summer courses at Columbia University, Richmond Normal School, and New York University. In 1921 she enrolled as a full-time student at the College of William and Mary, and two years later she received her AB degree. Adair joined
The late Mary T. Christian, a former Virginia state delegate and Colita Fairfax, a historiographer and professor with Norfolk State University co-founded the Barrett-Peake Foundation.
Barrett-Peake Foundation to honor its namesake with a graveside tribute dailypress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailypress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.