Mildred vermont biography
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When Mildred Louise Emery Mulheron was born on 26 February 1915, in Swanton, Franklin, Vermont, United States, her father, Ezra Albert Emery, was 23 and her mother, Ella Beatrice Lashway, was 21. She married Douglas Grey Shand in 1931, in Doublon dem Bedford, Lower Canada, British North amerika. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. She died on 4 June 1978, in St. Albans, Franklin, Vermont, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Swanton, Franklin, Vermont, United States.
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Mildred Beltré
BIO
Brooklyn-based artist, educator, and community organizer Mildred Beltré’s work focuses on facets of social change through print, drawing, and a politically-engaged participatory practice. She is interested in political movements and how they intersect with and are enacted in the social.
Beltré earned her MFA from the University of Iowa, and has had solo exhibitions at the Kentler International Drawing Center, Brooklyn, NY; Eli Marsh Gallery at Amherst College, Amherst, MA; and Burlington City Arts Center, Burlington, VT. Beltre has been part of group exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, NY, NY; Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY; International Print Center of New York, NY; DeCordova Museum, MA, among others. Beltré is the co-founder of the Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine, an ongoing socially engaged collaborative art project in Crown Heights, Brooklyn that addresses gentrification and community building through art-making
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Mildred Ellen Orton
American businesswoman (1911–2010)
Mildred Ellen Orton (née Wilcox; February 9, 1911 – May 6, 2010) was an American businesswoman and author who co-founded the Vermont Country Store with her husband, Vrest Orton, in Weston, Vermont, in 1946.[1]
Biography
[edit]Orton was born at a farm near Manchester, Vermont, on February 9, 1911.[1] She was the youngest of three siblings born to her parents, Erwin and Maria Hamilton Wilcox.[1] Wilcox graduated in 1930 from Rutland Business College.[1]
She married her husband, Vrest Orton, in 1936.[1] The Ortons launched the original Vermont Country Store catalog business in Fall 1945.[1] The couple opened the Vermont Country Store in 1946.[1] The store was a replica of an original store that Vrest Orton's father had owned and operated in North Calais, Vermont.[1] Mildred Orton co-ran the business until her retirement in 1978.[1]