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Hortense Parker Gilliam, born Hortense Parker (1859–1938), was the first known African-American graduate of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, in 1883.She taught music and piano at elementary school in Kansas City, Missouri from 1906 to 1913.
Henrietta Edgecomb Hooker (December 12, 1851 – May 13, 1929) was an American botanist and professor at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College).She was the second female doctoral graduate in botany at Syracuse University, [1] which made her one of the first women to earn a Ph.D. in botany from any U.S. university.
Julia E. Ward (died 1921) was an American educator who served as the sixth president (referred to at that time as "principal" [1]) of Mount Holyoke College (then Mount Holyoke Female Seminary) from 1872 to 1883. She graduated from Mount Holyoke in 1857 and taught there for five years before becoming principal.
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Hortense Parker, 1883 - daughter of African American abolitionist, John Parker and the first African American student to graduate from Mount Holyoke College; Alice Bradford Wiles, 1873 - Chicago clubwoman; Elizabeth Holloway Marston, 1915 - the inspiration for Wonder Woman [3] Ruth Muskrat Bronson, 1925 - poet, educator, Indian rights activist
Her inspirational words in the essay, has earned her a $277,720 scholarship over four years to Mount Holyoke College, in South Hadley, Massachusetts. According to the school's website , the ...
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Pitts graduated from Mount Holyoke College (then called the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary) in 1859. After her graduation, she returned to her parents' home in Honeoye. [3] After the American Civil War, she taught at the Hampton Institute, a school that educated black men and women. While teaching at the institution, she caused local controversy ...