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Katharine Hepburn: Hartford Hospital
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Katharine Houghton Hepburn was born May 12, 1907, in Hartford, Connecticut. She was the second of six children. Her father was a doctor, and her mother was a suffragist -- an influential combination that perhaps brought out the brazen, outspoken personality that distinguished the actress as "a personality."
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Hepburn was born in Hartford, Connecticut, to Dr. Thomas Norval Hepburn, a successful urologist from Virginia with Maryland roots, and Katharine Martha Houghton. She is of English ancestry from both sides of her family.
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In 1907, after attending a lecture given by the British suffragist, Emeline Pankhurst, Katharine decided to become an active champion of women's rights to vote. A demanding woman, Katharine Hepburn placed great value on the respect and dignity of all humans. With a few close friends, in 1913 she organized the Hartford Equal Franchise League, which grew to a membership of 20,000. Her efforts brought results with the ratification of the 19th Amendment.
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In 1910, the Hepburn family lived at 133 Hawthorne St. in Hartford, Connecticut. Eight years later, they were recorded living at 352 Laurel St.... in Hartford. By 1930, Katharine's parents and four younger siblings had moved to a large eight bedroom house at 201 Bloomfield Avenue in West Hartford. As of 2006, the house is owned by the University of Hartford.
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Hepburn nearly lost a foot in a car accident in late 1982 and spent almost three weeks in a hospital. But by the end of the year she was back before the cameras, co-starring with Nick Nolte in ''Grace Quigley,'' a comedy about a woman teaming with a hit man to help old people who want to die.
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