Quo Fuit places 6 dated presences for Margaret Mitchell across 6 places, from 1916 to 1934.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was an American novelist and journalist.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place Margaret Mitchell is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where Margaret Mitchell was documented, and when
1916year
Raleigh, North Carolinaattested“Upshaw was an Atlanta boy, a few months younger than Mitchell, whose family moved to Raleigh, North Carolina in 1916.”source: Wikipedia: Margaret Mitchell
September 1918month
Franceattested“While Margaret and her mother were in New York in September 1918 preparing for Margaret to attend college, Stephens wired his father that he was safe after his ship had been torpedoed en route to New York from France.”source: Wikipedia: Margaret Mitchell
September 1918month
New Yorkattested“While Margaret and her mother were in New York in September 1918 preparing for Margaret to attend college, Stephens wired his father that he was safe after his ship had been torpedoed en route to New York from France.”source: Wikipedia: Margaret Mitchell
October 1919month
Smith Collegeattested“In October 1919, while regaining her strength after an appendectomy, she confided to a friend that giving up college and her dreams of a "journalistic career" to keep house and take her mother's place in society meant "giving up all the…”source: Wikipedia: Margaret Mitchell
October 1919month
Washington Seminary (Atlanta)attested“In October 1919, while regaining her strength after an appendectomy, she confided to a friend that giving up college and her dreams of a "journalistic career" to keep house and take her mother's place in society meant "giving up all the…”source: Wikipedia: Margaret Mitchell
1934year
Atlantaattested“However, for Margaret, her grandmother was a great source of "eye-witness information" about the Civil War and Reconstruction in Atlanta prior to her death in 1934.”source: Wikipedia: Margaret Mitchell
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In each of these, a source puts Margaret Mitchell and the place in the same dated sentence without stating
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1912year
Atlantamentioned“In 1912, they moved to the east side of Peachtree Street just north of Seventeenth Street in Atlanta.”source: Wikipedia: Margaret Mitchell
1916year
Atlantamentioned“Mitchell read the books of Thomas Dixon, Jr., and in 1916, when the silent film, The Birth of a Nation, was showing in Atlanta, she dramatized Dixon's The Traitor: A Story of the Fall of the Invisible Empire (1907).”source: Wikipedia: Margaret Mitchell
1917year
Great Atlanta Firementioned“Mitchell's former Jackson Hill home was destroyed in the Great Atlanta Fire of 1917.”source: Wikipedia: Margaret Mitchell
April 1918month
Georgia (U.S. state)mentioned“He set sail for France in April 1918, participated in engagements in the Lagny and Marbache sectors, then returned to Georgia in October as a training instructor.”source: Wikipedia: Margaret Mitchell
June 1918month
Washington Seminary (Atlanta)mentioned“Upon graduating from Washington Seminary in June 1918, Mitchell fell in love with a Harvard graduate, a young army lieutenant, Clifford West Henry, who was chief bayonet instructor at Camp Gordon from May 10 until the time he set sail fo…”source: Wikipedia: Margaret Mitchell
June 1918month
Camp Gordon (World War I)mentioned“Upon graduating from Washington Seminary in June 1918, Mitchell fell in love with a Harvard graduate, a young army lieutenant, Clifford West Henry, who was chief bayonet instructor at Camp Gordon from May 10 until the time he set sail fo…”source: Wikipedia: Margaret Mitchell
5 January 1920exact date
United States Naval Academymentioned“In 1919 he was appointed to the United States Naval Academy, but resigned for academic deficiencies on January 5, 1920.”source: Wikipedia: Margaret Mitchell
5 January 1920exact date
United Statesmentioned“In 1919 he was appointed to the United States Naval Academy, but resigned for academic deficiencies on January 5, 1920.”source: Wikipedia: Margaret Mitchell
1922year
Atlantamentioned“A local gossip columnist, who wrote under the name Polly Peachtree, described Mitchell's love life in a 1922 column: ...she has in her brief life, perhaps, had more men really, truly 'dead in love' with her, more honest-to-goodness suito…”source: Wikipedia: Margaret Mitchell
May 1926month
Atlantamentioned“In May 1926, after Mitchell had left her job at the Atlanta Journal and was recovering at home from her ankle injury, she wrote a society column for the Sunday Magazine, "Elizabeth Bennet's Gossip", which she continued to write until Aug…”source: Wikipedia: Margaret Mitchell
11 August 1949exact date
Atlantamentioned“Margaret Mitchell was struck by a speeding motorist as she crossed Peachtree Street at 13th Street in Atlanta with her husband, John Marsh, while on her way to see the movie A Canterbury Tale on the evening of August 11, 1949.”source: Wikipedia: Margaret Mitchell
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explicitly dated record, attested a sentence that states the person was there,
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