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Elizabeth Cabot Cary (Elizabeth) Agassiz

1822–1907

Educator. A founder of the educational establishment for women that later became Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts. President of Radcliffe College, 1894–9; honorary president, 1900–3. Married Louis Agassiz in 1850.

Source

ANB.

Bibliography

ANB: American national biography. Edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. and supplement. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1999–2002.

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