• Martha Moore Ballard (February 20, 1735 – June 9, 1812) was an American midwife and healer. Unusual for the time, Ballard kept a diary with thousands...
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    Her career had parallels with that of her great-great-grandmother, Martha Ballard; but Mary Hobart sought out the medical profession by her own ambition...
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    A Midwife's Tale examines the life of Northern New England midwife Martha Ballard, and provides a vivid examination of ordinary life in the early American...
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  • Stephanie Daley, The Waltons, Law & Order, amongst others. She starred as Martha Ballard in PBS's A Midwife's Tale. "Kaiulani Lee". Kaiulani Lee. Retrieved 2017-05-15...
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  • Geoffrey Ballard (1932–2008), Canadian geophysicist and entrepreneur Guy Ballard (1878–1939), American mining engineer and Theosophist Martha Ballard (c. 1734–1812)...
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  • children's writer Martha Ballard, colonial midwife; her diary inspired the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on...
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    arts advocate Martha Baker (1838–1918), American Civil War nurse Martha Ballard (1735–1812), American midwife, healer, and mortician Martha Banks (born...
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    Foster told Martha Ballard that in the course of one week, three men had broken into her house and raped her, including Judge North. Martha Ballard begged...
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    Despite the high chance of complications in labor, American midwife Martha Ballard, specifically, had high success rates in delivering healthy babies to...
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    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (assassinated) (b. 1762) May 12 Martha Ballard, American diarist and midwife (b. 1734 or 1735) Charles Sturt, English...
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    Maine State Museum Viles Arboretum Ambrose Abbott, state legislator Martha Ballard, midwife James G. Blaine, Secretary of State and presidential nominee...
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  • North (soccer) in 2006 PDL season Joseph North (judge), connected to Martha Ballard Joseph North (actor) in Ladies Should Listen Joe North, character in...
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    blessing, this was reaffirmed. Ballard attended Brigham Young College; he graduated in 1884. In June 1896, Ballard married Martha A. Jones. The following month...
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  • Press, 1990. Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785–1812. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. 1992...
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  • the viability of physician strategies. The obstetric diary of midwife Martha Ballard (1735–1812) is historically valued for she documented the details of...
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  • Atangana (1880–1943), paramount chief of the Ewondo and Bane in Cameroon Martha Ballard (1735–1812), American frontier midwife, great-aunt of Clara Barton Nita...
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    Hobart was the great-great-granddaughter of Maine midwife and diarist Martha Ballard. Morton had severe arthritis that kept her from working in her later...
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  • Johann Jakob Griesbach, German Biblical commentator (born 1745) May 12 – Martha Ballard, American diarist (born c. 1734) July 14 – Christian Gottlob Heyne,...
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    Martha Rose Reeves (born July 18, 1941) is an American R&B and pop singer. She is best known for being the lead singer of the Motown girl group Martha...
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    president of the United States from 1805 to 1812 (born 1739) May 12 – Martha Ballard, diarist and midwife (born 1734 or 1735) June 17 – Jean La Lime, Victim...
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  • Balfour (1841–1894), New Zealand sheep farmer and roading supervisor Martha Ballard (1735–1812), American midwife and healer Samuel Bamford (1788–1872)...
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    Slinsky Jeanne Prentice Virginia Avenel Henderson Christiane Reimann Martha Ballard Dorothea Dix Gender role Nurse stereotypes Women in medicine History...
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  • Moore (1929-2022), American politician and civil engineer Martha Moore, birthname of Martha Ballard, American midwife and healer Mary Tyler Moore (1936–2017)...
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  • Press. Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher (1990). A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785–1812. New York, NY: Vintage Books. Zunshine...
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    the Supremes as the 16th greatest Hot 100 artist of all time. Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson, Diana Ross, and Betty McGlown, the original members, were...
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    February 1851, the son of The Reverend John N. Murdock and the former Martha Ballard. After an education in public schools in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts...
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  • 1863-1923 1990 -- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 1989 -- Drew R. McCoy, The Last of the...
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    Eyes (2001), Edmond Dantès in The Count of Monte Cristo (2002), and Tim Ballard in Sound of Freedom (2023). Caviezel was born in Mount Vernon, Washington...
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  • Republic 1990 Laurel Thatcher Ulrich The Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on her Diary, 1785-1812 1991 Nancy Leys Stepan "The Hour of Eugenics":...
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  • Sarah Ballard, Jane Ballard, John Ballard, Thomas Ballard, Lydia M. Harwood, Martha Margaret Collier, William Ballard, Elizabeth Ladd, Francis Ballard, Matthew...
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