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Mary Edmonia Lewis

claimed two different years of birth throughout her life but research seems to indicate that she was probably born sometime in 1844, some accounts list the date as July 4th, in upstate New York. Her mother was Native American, maybe part part Ojibwa and part Chippewa, and her father was a black gentleman’s servant. Edmonia’s Chippewa name was Wildfire. She was orphaned at a early age and she claimed that she was raised by some of her mother’s relatives. Her older brother, Sunrise, encouraged her to attend college before he departed for the California gold rush. He sent money home to her in order that she could enroll in Oberlin College. She thrived in college and showed great promise as

Jill Ker Conway, trail-blazing historian and Smith College president, dies at 83 By Harrison SmithTh

Jill Ker Conway, a historian who chronicled the role of women in American society and then made history of her own, serving as the first female president of Smith College and one of the first female board members of several major corporations, died June 1 at her home in Boston. She was 83. A spokesperson for Smith College, Stacey Schmeidel, confirmed the death but said she did not know the cause. The Australian-born Dr. Conway was just 40 when, in 1975, she became the first woman to lead Smith, the nation’s largest liberal arts institution for women. In her decade-long tenure, she presided over a transformation that brought the women’s movement to a school dominated for more than a century b

Louise Pound

Louise Pound was born on June 30th in 1872, in Lincoln, Nebraska. Her mother felt that public school was “too stereotyped,” and therefore educated her three children at home. She came from a very high-achieving family, with a father who was a district court judge and state senator. Pound was the middle child, and was extremely competitive. She received her bachelor’s degree as well as a music diploma from the University of Nebraska in 1892, followed by her master’s degree in 1893. Later, she went on to receive her doctor’s degree at the University of Heidelberg, earning it in one-third the usual time. While at the University of Nebraska, doing her undergraduate studies, she was the associa

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