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Ernestine Gilbreth Carey was born in New York City on April 5, 1908.
* She was the third oldest of twelve children of Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, pioneers of time and motion study.
* She graduated from Smith College in 1929 and worked as a buyer and manager at a department store.
* In 1930, she married Charles Everett Carey and had two children.
* She co-wrote two books with her brother Frank, Cheaper by the Dozen (1948) and Belles on Their Toes (1950).
* The books were based on their experiences growing up in a large family.
* Cheaper by the Dozen was adapted into a film in 1950 and again in 2003.
* Carey died in Fresno, California, on November 4, 2006, at the age of 98.