Helen Magill White

Helen Magill White (1853 - 1944) was the first woman with the the United States to obtain a doctorate. She obtained it for her studies of Greek to the Université of Boston in 1877.

Raised in a family Quaker, White always thought that it deserved same education as a man. His/her father was the president of Swarthmore College, where it began its academic works.

She taught in Howard Collegiate Institute, Evelyn College (old appendix of the Université of Princeton), and in Brooklyn High School, before marrying Andrew Dickson White in 1890. Dickson was a friend of its father and the former president of the Université of Cornell, which it had met in 1887 when it gave a conference in front of American Social Science Association.

After its marriage, it withdrew university and accompanied her husband in his stations by diplomat with Saint Petersbourg and Berlin. She decided against the right of Vote of the women in 1913.

External bond

The Helen Magill White Papers At Cornell University

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