Women / Persons ~ P23777

Mary Jane Patterson

Alternate Names:
  • Miss Mary J. Patterson
Gender: Female
Life Dates: 12 September 1840 – 24 September 1894
Types:
  • African American
  • Educational founder, schoolmistress
  • Teacher
Note: First African-American woman to get a Bachelor of Arts Degree--Oberlin. Worked with Fanny Jackson Coppin, Phila. Principal of Dunbar HS in DC.
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