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Also Known As Emma Hart
Born February 23, 1787 • Berlin • Connecticut
Died April 15, 1870 (aged 83) • Troy • New York
Awards And Honors Hall of Fame (1905)
Notable Family Members sister Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps

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M. Carey Thomas
M. Carey Thomas
American educator
Phelps, Almira Hart Lincoln: Familiar Lectures on Botany
Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps
American educator
Julia Strudwick Tutwiler
American educator and reformer
Susan Lincoln Tolman Mills.
Susan Lincoln Tolman Mills
American missionary and educator
Elaine Showalter
American literary critic and teacher
Emily James Smith (later Putnam) in her graduation picture from Bryn Mawr College, 1889.
Emily James Smith Putnam
American educator and historian
Mary Emma Woolley
Mary Emma Woolley
American educator
Palmer, Alice Elvira Freeman
Alice Elvira Freeman Palmer
American educator
Mary Lyon, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist; in the collection of Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts.
Mary Lyon
American educator
Benjamin Mays
American political activist
Mildred Helen McAfee
American educator and military commander
Lawrence H. Summers
American economist and educator
John Dewey
John Dewey
American philosopher and educator
Sister Thea Bowman
Thea Bowman
Roman Catholic nun and teacher
Franz Boas
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
Shirley Ann Jackson
Shirley Ann Jackson
American scientist and educator
Lathrop, Julia Clifford
Julia Clifford Lathrop
American social worker
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Dutch politician
Tony Brown
American activist, television producer, writer, educator and filmmaker
Richards, Ellen Swallow
Ellen Swallow Richards
American chemist