Libbie hyman biography of rory gilmore

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The memoir below was published in National Academy of Sciences, BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS, Vol. 60, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1991, pp.

103-114, and is reproduced on annelid resources site courtesy of the Permissions Manager, National Academy Press.

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"I WAS BORN IN DES MOINES, Iowa, December 6, 1888, of Jewish parents, both of whom were immigrants to the United States.

My father, Joseph Hyman, came from a Polish village, name of Konin, located in a part of Poland that had been appropriated by Russia. It lay within the Russian Pale, where Jews were subject to brutal restrictions.

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At the age of fourteen he escaped across the border and made his way to London where he lived for some years, earning a living by plying the family trade of tailoring. Eventually he migrated to the United States, where he struck up a strong friendship with one David Goldman.

The two men decided to migrate to what was then the far west (namely Iowa) and went to Des