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This portrait of Dean Sarah Louise Arnold was painted in 1929 during Arnold’s tenure as a trustee of Massachusetts Agricultural College. The artist is unknown.

Helen Louise Burr was born in Dedham, Massachusetts in 1870, and attended Melrose Public Schools. She earned a BA from Wellesley College in 1893, and then a graduate degree in Domestic Science from Simmons in 1903.

A supporter of women’s…

Hettie Gray Baker was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1881 and completed a “special course” in Library Science at Simmons sometime before 1907. She worked at the Hartford Public Library and then as a legal librarian at the Hartford Bar Library…

Harriet L.B. Brown, pictured here in Farm, Stock, and Home in 1915, was born in Napa, California in 1872 and received a Bachelor of Law degree from Smith College in 1891. She married Henry Herbert Darling in San Francisco in 1894, and the couple had…

Ruth Belcher, pictured here in the 1923 edition of the Wellesley College Legenda, was born in 1901 in Portland, Maine to Arthur Belcher and Annie Manson Belcher, a fellow suffragist. Ruth and her mother marched together in the Boston suffrage parade…

Helen Davenport Brown was born in Philadelphia in 1882 to Clement M. and Emily Eckert (Myers) Brown. She studied German and French at Bryn Mawr, graduating around 1905, and then pursued graduate work at Simmons from 1906 to 1907, possibly studying…

Hester Jane Mercer was born in Readville, Massachusetts in 1877 to Joseph and Mary Ellen (Cullen) Mercer. She graduated from Windham High School in Willimantic, Connecticut in 1899 and attended Brown University, earning an A.B. in 1903. She then…