On this day in women’s history…

Posted by bean | February 28th, 2004

February 28

1797: (Birthday) Mary Lyon, founder of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, and the first woman’s college, Mount Holyoke College which was chartered in 1836, born in Buckland, Massachusetts. Elected to Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1905.

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