first female professor at Ripon College; hired in 1859 to be "matron of the boarding department," taught botany, mathematics, and English literature and composition, published a catalogue of plants in 1889

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[Source: Brown, Victoria. Uncommon Lives of Common Women: The Missing Half of Wisconsin History. Madison: Wisconsin Feminists Project Fund, 1975.]