The triangular faces of the roof are called the hip ends, and they are bounded by the hips themselves. The hips and hip rafters sit on an external corner of the building and rise to the ridge. Where the building has an internal corner, a valley makes the join between the sloping surfaces.
Mary Elizabeth Lease (September 11, 1850 â October 29, 1933) was an American lecturer, writer, and political activist. She was an advocate of the suffrage movement as well as temperance but she was best known for her work with the Populist party.She was born to Irish immigrants Joseph P. and Mary Elizabeth (Murray) Clyens, in Ridgway, Pennsylvania.n 1895, she wrote The Problem of Civilization Solved, and in 1896, she moved to New York City where she edited the democratic newspaper, World. In addition, she worked as an editor for the National Encyclopedia of American Biography. Mary Elizabeth Lease was also known as Mary Ellen Lease.
St. Louis Republican, July 24, 1885. Mary Robinson. Mary Robinson was a mulatto slave who belonged to Frederick Dent, the father-in-law of Ulysses S. Grant. Mary lived with Ulysses and Julia and came to know U. S. Grant well, cooking, cleaning and tending to the Grant children. Following Grant's death, Mary Robinson's recollections of him were published in a St. Louis newspaper, and appear in full below: