Sep 7, 2009 | Encyclopaedia Britannica
Anna Robertson had only sporadic periods of schooling during her childhood. At age 12 she left her parents' farm and worked as a hired girl until she married Thomas Moses in 1887.
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She was born Anna Mary Robertson in Greenwich, New York in 1860. At the age of 12 she left home to work as a hired girl on a neighboring farm.
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