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Addition, Lucia Faxton
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Blakely, Myrtle W.
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Bean, Martha E.
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Brooks, Mildred R.
Mildred R. Brooks ran for County Recorder for Marion County, Oregon in 1916.
Bleakman, Ida Cupon
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Adams, Alice L.
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Brownell, Frances Zella
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