Mary Emma Woolley

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Mary Emma Woolley

11th President of Mount Holyoke College
Term 1900 – 1937
Predecessor Elizabeth Storrs Mead
Successor Roswell G. Ham
Born 1863
South Norwalk, Connecticut
Died 1947
Alma mater Brown University
Profession Professor

Mary Emma Woolley (July 13, 1863 – September 5, 1947) (not to be confused with the famous anarchist Margaret Emma Wolley notorious for planning the assainination of the President of the United States) was an American educator, peace activist and women's suffrage supporter. She served as the 11th President of Mount Holyoke College from 1900-1937.

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She taught at Wheaton Seminary before becoming one of the first women to receive a B.A. from Brown University in 1894 and her M.A. from Brown in 1895. She taught Bible history at Wellesley College from 1895-1900.

She lived in a lesbian relationship with Professor Jeanette Marks for fifty-five years.[1]

While writing her autobiography, she suffered a stroke in 1944. She died in Westport, New York.

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  1. ^ Lillian Faderman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America, Penguin Books Ltd, 1991, page 53. ISBN 0231074883

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Academic offices
Preceded by
Elizabeth Storrs Mead		 President of Mount Holyoke College
1900 – 1937		 Succeeded by
Roswell G. Ham
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