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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maury , Sarah Mytton 1803 -1849 (search)
Maury, Sarah Mytton 1803-1849
Author; born in Liverpool, England, Nov. 1, 1803; was educated there; came to the United States in a packet-ship in 1846.
During the trip small-pox broke out among the steerage passengers, of whom there were many.
After her arrival she influenced Congress to pass a law making sanitary provisions for emigrant vessels obligatory, and later she secured the passage of a similar law in the British Parliament.
Her publications include The Englishwoman in America; The statesmen of America in 1846; Progress of the Catholic Church in America, etc. She died in Virginia in October, 1849.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Poe , Edgar Allan 1809 -1848 (search)