Elizabeth Taylor Harper Flanagan

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Elizabeth Jordan Whitehead Taylor Harper Flanagan named the city of Auburn. She is best remembered as the namesake of Elizabeth Harper Hall, at a young age writing her future husband Thomas Harper that the settlement should be named "Sweet Auburn, loveliest village on the plains".[1]

Biography[edit | edit source]

Elizabeth Harper Flanagan was married twice, first to Thomas Harper, and after his death, to Christopher Flanagan. She had four children, two by each of her husbands.[2]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. http://www.oanow.com/news/article_6a553d14-0af9-575d-b4ae-80f47e789265.html
  2. Draughon, Ralph Brown; Hughes, Delos D.; Ann Bowling Pearson. Lost Auburn: A Village Remembered in Period Photographs. New South Books, 2012.