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Lear, Frances

Lear was born to an unmarried teenager and relinquished for adoption. Her adoptive mother was cold and cruel and her father, whom she loved, died when she was 10. Her step-father sexually a... [more]

Lee, George Patrick

Lee was the first Native American to become a general authority of the Mormon (Latter-day Saints) church. He was born to a traditional (non-Christian) Navajo family, one of 17 children. He ... [more]

Lee, John Doyle

Doyle was born in the Illinois Territory, His mother died when he was three, and his father was an alcoholic. At seven he went to live with an uncle's family, and stayed with them until he ... [more]

Lehmann, Henry

Lehmann was captured aged 11 by two Apaches, Billy Chiwat and Pinero, and lived with the Apaches until 1879. His account of his life with them is one of the major primary sources about the ... [more]

Leitch, David

Leitch was born to a very young married couple, too poor to keep him. Theyadvertised in the London Daily Express for adoptive parents and he was placed withnew parents when he was eight days... [more]

Lemke, Leslie

Lemke was born prematurely in Milwaukee and placed for adoption at birth. While still in the hospital awaiting placement he was diagnosed with retrolental fibroplasia (caused by too much ox... [more]

Lennon, John Winston

Lennon's parents, Alfred (who was orphaned age nine and raised in an orphanage) and Julia Lennon, separated when he was three. From the age of five, after a failed attempt by his father to ... [more]

Leonard, Hugh

Leonard was born John Keyes Byrne in Dublin, to an unmarried woman named Annie Byrne. He was adopted as a baby by a gardener and his wife, Nicholas and Margaret Keyes and raised in Dalkey. ... [more]

Leonowens, Anna

Leonowens was born Anna Harriette Crawford in Wales. Her father was in the army and her parents went to India when she was six, leaving her in Britain with a relative who ran a girls' schoo... [more]

Lewis, Dilwyn John David

Canon Lewis was the priest in charge of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore inRome, one of the most important churches of the Roman Catholic church, and raisedover £4,000,000 for its restor... [more]