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Palmer, Alice Elvira Freeman
Palmer, Alice Elvira Freeman Alice Elvira Freeman Palmer.

Alice Elvira Freeman Palmer

American educator
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Alice Elvira Freeman
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Feb. 21, 1855, Colesville [near Binghamton], N.Y., U.S.
Died:
Dec. 6, 1902, Paris, France (aged 47)
Awards And Honors:
Hall of Fame (1920)
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Alice Elvira Freeman Palmer (born Feb. 21, 1855, Colesville [near Binghamton], N.Y., U.S.—died Dec. 6, 1902, Paris, France) was an American educator who exerted a strong and lasting influence on the academic and administrative character of Wellesley (Massachusetts) College during her brief tenure as its president. Alice Freeman had taught herself to read by the time she entered local district school at the age of four. In 1872 she sat for the entrance examination at the University of Michigan, then the foremost university to which women were admitted, and although she proved deficient in some areas, the deep impression she ...(100 of 449 words)

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