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JULIA DAVIS ADAMS (1901-1993) was born in Clarksburg, West Virginia, attended Wellesley College, and graduated from Barnard College in 1922. She began her career as a reporter for the Associated Press in New York City, where she also headed the adoption service of the Children’s Aid Society in the early 1960s. She authored two dozen books, mostly novels. Writing as Julia Davis, she often dealt with the history of her native state and the role her family had played in it. ...

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