Livia Nye Simpson Poffenbarger, a newspaper editor whose efforts resulted in congressional recognition of the Battle of Point Pleasant as being the first battle of the Revolutionary War, died on October 27, 1937.
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Death of Newspaper Publisher Livia Simpson
Poffenbarger
"Woman Historian, Civic Leader, Dies"
"Poffenbarger Tribute Paid"
"Holt Pays Tribute To Late Historian"
School work of Livia Simpson, 1876
"'Manufactured History': Re-Fighting the Battle of Point
Pleasant"
Document-Based Questions
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