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unusual facts about Mary Lyon


Helen Thompson Woolley

The college itself is considered to have been founded by an innovator in the area of women’s education, Mary Lyon.



see also

Lyon sisters

The two sisters were born to John and Mary Lyon in Kensington, Maryland.

Mary Howe

“Heroines of Service”- includes music of Mary Lyon, Alice Freeman Palmer, Clara Barton, Frances Willard, Julia Ward Howe, Anna Shaw, Mary Antin, Alice C. Fletcher, Mary Slessor of Calabar, Madame Curie, Jane Addams