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Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

Carey is the author of Cheaper By the Dozen, which documented the adventures of the Gilbreth clan, which included six sons and six daughters and parents Lillian Moller Gilbreth and Frank Bunker Gilbreth. Carey had only two childrem herself after taking care of younger siblings for much of her life after her father died while she was still a teenager. She was 98 when she died in 2006.