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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gaines , Myra Clark 1805 -1813 (search)
Gaines, Myra Clark 1805-1813
Claimant; wife of Edmund Pendleton Gaines; daughter of Daniel Clark, who was born in Sligo, Ireland, and emigrated to New Orleans, where Myra was born in 1805.
Her father inherited a large estate from his uncle in 1799, and died in New Orleans, Aug. 16, 1813, devising all his property to his mother, Mary Clark.
Myra married first W. W. Whitney in 1832, and on his death General Gaines in 1839.
She claimed the estate of her father, who was reputed a bachelor at the time of his death, and after a litigation of over fifty years she succeeded in establishing her rights.
She died in New Orleans, Jan. 9, 1885.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Navigation acts. (search)