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American writer and historian
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Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA
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91 years
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Mary Claire Engstrom (October 1, 1906 – May 20, 1997) was an American writer and historian. She is best known for her active role in preserving the historic town of Hillsborough, North Carolina.
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Mary was born in Kansas City, and was the daughter of Lester L. Randolph and Florence Alberta Toynbee Randolph. She earned a PhD at University of North Carolina in English literature in 1939, and did postdoctoral research at Harvard and Yale, specializing in 18-century satire.
With her Alfred G. Engstrom (1907–1990), a professor of French at the university, in 1959, she purchased the historic Nash-Hooper House in Hillsborough.
She began to do historical documentation of Hillsborough and its surroundings.
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