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    Leicester (/ˈlɛstər/ LEST-ər) is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 11,087 at the 2020 United States Census....
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  • Leicester is a city in England. Leicester may also refer to: Leicester, Massachusetts Leicester, New York, a town Leicester (village), New York, within...
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  • Leicester Airport was an airfield operational in the mid-20th century in Leicester, Massachusetts. It was located adjacent and to the west of the Worcester...
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    Becker College (category Leicester, Massachusetts)
    private college in Worcester and Leicester, Massachusetts. Becker College traced its history from the union of two Massachusetts educational institutions—one...
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    Ralph Earl (category People from Leicester, Massachusetts)
    Ralph Earl was born on May 11, 1751, in either Shrewsbury or Leicester, Massachusetts, the oldest of four children of Ralph Earle and Phebe Whittemore...
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    David Henshaw (American politician) (category People from Leicester, Massachusetts)
    States Secretary of the Navy. Henshaw was born in Leicester, Massachusetts in 1791 and educated at Leicester Academy. Trained as a druggist, he achieved notable...
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    in Springfield, Massachusetts and North American International Livestock Exposition held in Louisville, Kentucky. English Leicester Watchlist 2017–18...
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    Klimaszewski Twins (category People from Leicester, Massachusetts)
    Elaine Klimaszewski Born (1971-09-13) September 13, 1971 (age 53) Leicester, Massachusetts Professional wrestling career Ring name(s) Diane and Elaine Klimaszewski...
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  • Stephen Tashjian (category People from Leicester, Massachusetts)
    raised in the central Massachusetts town of Leicester. He is from an Armenian American family. Tashjian attended the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston...
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    Leicester Academy was a private, state chartered school in Leicester, Massachusetts. Leicester Academy was founded on March 23, 1784, when the Act of Incorporation...
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    Chicago, Boston, Ann Arbor, Columbus, Ohio, Leicester, Massachusetts, Cleveland, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Los Angeles, and San Francisco where when...
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    Arthur Estabrook (category People from Leicester, Massachusetts)
    researcher and eugenist. Arthur Estabrook was born on May 9, 1885, in Leicester, Massachusetts. His parents were Susan Rebecca (Beck) and Arthur Francis Estabrook...
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    owned cemetery in Leicester, Massachusetts, established in 1740 and located at the site of the old meeting house of the Leicester Friends (Quakers) on...
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    Ichabod Washburn (category People from Leicester, Massachusetts)
    Worcester, Massachusetts. Washburn became an apprentice in a Leicester, Massachusetts blacksmith shop at the age of sixteen. He attended Leicester Academy...
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    Worcester Regional Airport (category Leicester, Massachusetts)
    Worcester, in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The main property lies within municipalities of Worcester and Leicester, with supporting facilities...
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    Winnetaska, Ashland, Massachusetts Marion White, Richmond, Massachusetts Neyati, Leicester, Massachusetts Kinnebrook, Worthington, Massachusetts Camp Malcolm...
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    in Smithfield, RI.[citation needed] The game was also played in Leicester, Massachusetts in the late 1970s and into the 1980s (and presumably much earlier...
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  • Peter Salem (category People from Leicester, Massachusetts)
    peacefully. He married Katy Benson in Salem, Massachusetts in September 1783, and he later built a cabin near Leicester, where he worked as a cane weaver. Peter...
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    Team Hoyt (category People from Holland, Massachusetts)
    problems. He was 80. Rick died from respiratory complications in Leicester, Massachusetts, on May 22, 2023. He was 61. Team Hoyt was inducted to the Ironman...
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    settled in 1714 as of today outer parts of Worcester, Sutton, Leicester and Oxford, Massachusetts, and the town was officially incorporated on April 10, 1778...
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    AW169 helicopter crashed shortly after take-off from Leicester City's King Power Stadium in Leicester, England, while on route to Luton Airport. All people...
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  • Joseph Sprague (category People from Leicester, Massachusetts)
    served as Mayor of Brooklyn. Sprague was born on July 25, 1783, in Leicester, Massachusetts. He was the son of Captain William Sprague, a militia captain and...
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    Pliny Earle I (category People from Leicester, Massachusetts)
    and cotton carding pickers. Pliny Earle I was born in 1762 in Leicester, Massachusetts, the son of Sarah and Robert Earle. In 1785, he teamed with Edmund...
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  • Susan McFarland Parkhurst (category People from Leicester, Massachusetts)
    was an American writer and composer. Susan McFarland was born in Leicester, Massachusetts, and composed popular songs and parlour piano solos during the...
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  • J. L. R. McCollum (category People from Leicester, Massachusetts)
    Wisconsin State Assembly. McCollum was born on January 4, 1842, in Leicester, Massachusetts. He graduated from a school that is now known as Bryant & Stratton...
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  • John R. Wilder (category People from Leicester, Massachusetts)
    who served in King William's War, Wilder was born in 1816 in Leicester, Massachusetts, to John Wilder and Lucinda A. Washburn. He married Anna Drucilla...
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    The Washburn Square–Leicester Common Historic District encompasses the historic civic heart of Leicester, Massachusetts. It includes Washburn Square,...
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  • Brown University), and he donated land to establish Leicester Academy in Leicester, Massachusetts. It has been said about him that he was 'a man of eminent...
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    in 1840.[citation needed] Baird from Scotland took carding to Leicester, Massachusetts, in the 1780s. In the 1890s, the town produced one-third of all...
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  • Joseph B. Sargent (category People from Leicester, Massachusetts)
    Joseph Bradford Sargent (December 14, 1822 in Leicester, Massachusetts – July 15, 1907 in New Haven, Connecticut) was the founder of Sargent & Co., a manufacturer...
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