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At the age of ten, the Shadd's moved to West Chester, Pennsylvania where Mary attended a Quaker School for the next six years. This experience influence dMary later in life, whereby she returned to this location and opened a school for Black children in 1840.
Died: October 29, 1933, Callicoon, New York. Populist orator Mary Elizabeth Lease, who supposedly advised Kansas farmers to raise less corn and more hell, was born Mary Clyens to Irish immigrant parents in Pennsylvania in 1850.orn: September 11, 1850, Ridgway, Pennsylvania. Populist orator Mary Elizabeth Lease, who supposedly advised Kansas farmers to raise less corn and more hell, was born Mary Clyens to Irish immigrant parents in Pennsylvania in 1850. In her later years, she claimed she had been born in 1853.