Template:On this day/January 23

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January 23:

  • 1828Mary Randolph, author of "The Virginia House-Wife" (1824), one of the best-known cookbooks of the 19th century, died. Mrs. Randolph was the source of over forty dishes that were served at Monticello, including catfish soup and floating island. She was a direct descendant of Pocahontas; a cousin of Thomas Jefferson; of Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis, wife of George Washington Parke Custis, the builder of Arlington House; and of Robert E. Lee. Her brother Thomas Mann Randolph, Governor of Virginia (1819-1821), married Martha Jefferson, daughter of TJ.
  • 1908Burkley Bullock, an educated freedman, successful entrepreneur and real estate investor in the Charlottesville area of Albemarle County, died.