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Elizabeth Duane Gillespie (15 January 1821-13 October 1901), a great-granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin, was a mover and shaker of 19th-century Philadelphia society. She was a primary force in Philadelphia's Great Central Fair of 1864 and of the Centennial Exposition of 1876, in particular the Woman's Building at the Centennial. Gillespie served as president of the Women's Centennial Committee, president of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art's Associate Committee of Women, president and vice-president of the Pennsylvania Society of the Colonial Dames of America,

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