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Wilda Claire Strong was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in 1890 to Clara (Stoll) Strong and Dr. Hamilton Strong, a dentist. She graduated from the nearby Plymouth High School in 1907 and enrolled at Western Reserve University for a one-year library…

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…

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…

Alice Charlotte Williams was born in 1878 in Buffalo, New York to Charlotte (Stoneman) Williams and Benjamin Harris Williams, a state senator. She attended Buffalo High School and then Wellesley College, earning her B.A. in 1900. She later pursued…