Mary A. Brigham
Encyclopedia
Mary A. Brigham was an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 educator who was the 8th President (President Elect) of Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts college for women in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It was the first member of the Seven Sisters colleges, and served as a model for some of the others...

 in 1889. After a teaching for a few years, "she was elected President of Mount Holyoke Seminary and College in 1889, but died in a railway accident before she could take up her appointment. In 1897 a dormitory, Brigham Hall, was dedicated to her by the New York Alumnae Club, of which she had been President in her lifetime."http://www.mtholyoke.edu/lits/library/arch/col/rg4/rg4ji.shtml

See also

  • Presidents of Mount Holyoke College

External links

The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK