Clarice
Leone Norwood
(Leone)
Farrell
Born in Monkland Station, Stormont, Ontario, Canada
Ancestors 
Daughter of William Hutchison Farrell
and Frances Adamson (Allen) Farrell
Sister of
Stella Alberta (Farrell) McDonald, King Allen Farrell, Edith Cleo Beatrix (Farrell) Westman, William Spencer Farrell and Thomas Blake Farrell
Died
at age 82
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Biography
Leone Farrell is Notable.
Leone Farrell is/was a significant Ontarian .
The first person to mass produce a vaccine in the history of medicine.
Leone Farrell was born in Monckland Station, Ontario,[1] and was raised in Toronto. In 1933, at the age of 29, she obtained her PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Toronto — almost unheard of at the time. Her specialty was the study of fungi and, during her years of research, Leone came up with a method for producing safe vaccines in mass quantities.
Her 'Toronto Method' was instrumental in the mass production of the vaccines used to fight chicken pox, measles, whooping cough and polio. Although her accomplishments were recognized by her colleagues, Leone continued to work in obscurity until her death in 1986 at the age of 82. She lay in an unmarked grave until 2007, when her relatives erected a fitting headstone in the Park Lawn Cemetery in Toronto.[2]
Sources
- ↑ "Ontario Births, 1869-1912," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FMF3-8B5 : 9 August 2017), Clarice Leona Norwood Farrell, 13 Apr 1904; citing Birth, Monckland Sta., Stormont, Ontario, Canada, citing Archives of Ontario, Toronto; FHL microfilm 2,210,911.
- ↑ Leone Norwood Farrell (1904-1986) on Find A Grave: Memorial #77259362 retrieved 08 March 2019.
See also:
- Wikipedia: Dr. Leone N. Farrell
- Wikidata: Item Q57728607, en:Wikipedia
- Rutty, Christopher. Leone Norwood Farrell. The Canadian Encyclopedia, 18 March 2021, Historica Canada. [Link to Bio] Accessed 10 April 2024.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Leone:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Leone:
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~12.50%
~25.00%
Steven Cuthbert 
:
23andMe
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~3.12%
Christine Allen :
23andMe
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~1.56%
Gaye Beckwith :
Autosomal DNA Test
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Melissa Tappay :
23andMe
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~0.78%
John King :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #448412
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Rejected matches › Marjorie C. Farrell (1904-1984)
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