1876: Kenneth Brown, father of Edith Cowan

ExecutedToday.com ^ | June 10, 2011 | Headsman

[CheshireTheCat]

Australian liberal campaigner Edith Cowan — a notable suffragist, and later an activist for disadvantaged children — enjoys the distinction of being her country’s first female Member of Parliament.

But Cowan was disadvantaged herself in her own childhood by the hanging on this date in 1876 of her father, explorer Kenneth Brown.

While Kenneth entered this world in England, his family emigrated to Australia in his infancy, and there established the pastoral outpost Glengarry Station.

Is this sufficient to justify a wholly unrelated excerpt from Glengarry Glen Ross? Reader, it is......

[sauropod]

.

[edwinland]

The Glengarry digression is genius.

[A strike]

try him till you get the necessary verdict
we don’t have that perfected yet but we have something just as good

[Deplorable American1776]

Those articles are great to read...