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At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
Mary Ellen Pleasant
Born: 1814
Died: January 4, 1904 (aged 90)
Bio: Mary Ellen Pleasant was a 19th-century African American entrepreneur widely known as Mistress Pleasant. She identified herself as "a capitalist by profession" in the 1890 United States Census. People called her "Mammy" Pleasant but she did not approve.