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February 10, 2021
Born Victoria Claflin Woodhull on September 23, 1838, in the rural frontier town of Homer, Ohio, Victoria Woodhull was the seventh of ten children in a town with a population of 400. Her father was a schemer, a swindler, a snake oil salesman, so the family moved often to avoid him getting caught and slammed with criminal charges. The young Victoria was often shoeless and free range, running wild unattended; her neighbors described her as scrubby, dirty but smart as a whip.
Despite her chaotic upbringing and despite surviving physical abuse from her father, Victoria became prolific in taking care of herself and also learned how to tell the fortunes of people, maintaining that she and her sister Tennessee were protected and guided by spirits. Victoria became so good at mediumship (talking to the dead) that by age ten, she was the highest earner of her family, supporting them with her wages at a time in the life of America when women were expected to be home ....

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