Menifee County

FAMOUS WOMEN’S FIRSTS 1848 - first Women’s Rights Convention 1849 - first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Science 1853 - first woman ordained as a minister in the Protestant denomination 1855 - first woman on record to keep her own name after marriage 1855 - first state school to admit women (U. of Iowa) 1869 - first woman ... ................
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