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- Martha Dandridge Custis Washington. - No formal education. Like many women of her time, Martha Washington didn't receive a formal education. However, she did learn basic mathematics, reading, and writing at home, which is more than many girls at the time could say.
- Abigail Smith Adams. - No formal education. An early advocate for women's rights, Abigail Adams also did not receive a formal education. What education she had, she taught herself from the books in her family's library.
- Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson. - No formal education. Technically, Martha Jefferson never served as First Lady because she died 19 years before her husband Thomas Jefferson became president.
- Dolley Payne Todd Madison. - No formal education. The nation's fourth First Lady did not have a formal education either, though that didn't stop her from becoming an accomplished hostess and socialite.
1851: Tennessee and Alabama Female Institute (later Mary Sharp College) was the first women's college to grant college degrees to women that were the equivalent of those given to men. The college closed due to financial hardship in 1896.
As a private institution in 1831, Mississippi College becomes the first coeducational college in the United States to grant a degree to a woman. In December 1831 it grants degrees to two women, Alice Robinson and Catherine Hall.
Ingham University in Le Roy, New York, was the first women's college in New York State and the first chartered women's university in the United States. It was founded in 1835 as the Attica (NY) Female Seminary by Mariette and Emily E. Ingham, who moved the school to Le Roy in 1837.
Mar 11, 2009 · July 16, 1840 —Catherine Brewer becomes the first woman to earn a bachelor's degree, graduating from Wesleyan College in Macon, Ga.
Mar 6, 2020 · Religiously-motivated abolitionists, who were committed to equality for black Americans and women, opened the first coeducational colleges in the United States as early as 1835.
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Mar 24, 2019 · In 1742, the Bethlehem Female Seminary was established in Germantown, Pennsylvania, becoming the first institute of higher education for women in the United States. It was founded by the Countess Benigna von Zinzendorf, daughter of Count Nicholas von Zinzendorf, under his sponsorship.
