Hortense Parker
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Hortense Parker was the daughter of African American inventor, industrialist and abolitionist, John Parker.
Parker holds the distinction of being the first African American student to attend Mount Holyoke College [1]. She arrived to the campus 15 years after the end of the American Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment in 1879 and graduated in 1883 [2].
Parker taught elementary school from 1906-1913/14 [3].
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