The author, Justine Davis Randers-Pehrson, is a direct descendant of Captain Anton Joseph Kilp, USA (1819-1877), a Bavarian "Forty-Eighter" who served in the Union Army throughout the Civil War.
Randers-Pehrson received her education at Hood College, Radcliffe College, the Université de Nancy, the Sorbonne, Universität Heidelberg, and Howard University.
Professionally, Randers-Pehrson was successively a cataloguer at the Library of Congress and at the National Library of Medicine, an editor with the US Office of Technical Services, and a translator with the US Patent Office.
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The author's son,
Glenn Randers-Pehrson, deserves
heartfelt thanks for
his generous use of time and expertise in creation of this WEB site.
JDR-P