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Ohio Wesleyan Female College was a women's college, operating for two-and-a-half decades, until it merged into Ohio Wesleyan University in 1877. After starting as a Delaware, Ohio , academy for women in 1850, equivalent to a high school, it expanded its program in 1853 to begin service as a college. [ 1 ]
Wesleyan College is a private, liberal arts women's college in Macon, Georgia, United States. Founded in 1836, Wesleyan was the first college in the world chartered to grant degrees to women. It opened in 1839, two years after the opening of Mount Holyoke College. [2]
The Ohio Wesleyan Female College was established in 1853. In 1857, the female college moved to Monnett Hall, named for school benefactress Mary Monnett Bain. In 1877, the female college merged with the university, which became coeducational. Monnett Hall remained the center for women's housing on campus well into the 20th century.
Wesleyan Female College may refer to: Cincinnati Wesleyan Female Seminary, Ohio; Ohio Wesleyan Female College, Delaware, Ohio; Wesleyan College, Macon, Georgia; Wesleyan Female College (Wilmington), Delaware
Wesleyan Female College of Wilmington, Delaware, USA, was a college for women that operated from 1837 to 1885. [1] Reverend Solomon Prettyman founded the institution in 1837 as the Wesleyan Female Seminary, with the support of the Philadelphia and Baltimore Conferences of the Methodist Church. The school started on Market Street in 1837, moved ...
Georgia Female College, now Wesleyan College opened in 1839 as the first Southern college for women. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] While there were a few coeducational colleges (such as Oberlin College founded in 1833, Guilford College , in 1837, Lawrence University in 1847, Antioch College in 1853, Bates College in 1855), and Cornell University in 1865 ...
It is the second-oldest female educational establishment that is still a women's college. Missouri is in the Upper South. It was settled by planters along the Mississippi River. 1839: Georgia Female College (now Wesleyan College): This is the oldest (and the first) school to be founded (chartered in 1836) as a college for women.
A term report signed by the vice-president of Ohio Wesleyan in 1845 noted that her conduct was "unexceptionable" (beyond reproach). [1] Several months later Lucy transferred to Cincinnati Wesleyan Female College and she graduated from there in 1850. [4] Lucy was unusually well educated for a young lady of her day. [6]