Legaré, Mary S. (Mary Swinton)

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Mary Swinton Legare (Bullen) was the sister of Hugh Swinton Legare (1797-1843), a South Carolina attorney, editor, and politician. Mary Swinton Legare Bullen was born on her father's South Carolina plantation in 1798 and later lived in Charleston, S.C. and Washington, D.C. In 1849 she moved to Iowa, where she founded Legare College at West Point, in Lee County. While living in Iowa she married Judge William Bullen.

From the description of Letters to Isabella Walpole, 1857. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32144243

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