Ada Howard
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Ada Lydia Howard was the first president of Wellesley College.
First President of Wellesley
Portrait taken when she was principal of the Knox Female Seminary. (1866–1869)
Western College for Women
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Western College for Women, known at other times as Western Female Seminary and simply Western College, was a women's and later coed liberal arts college in Oxford, Ohio, between 1853 and 1974. Initial
Ada Howard
…her studies with private teachers. After graduation, Howard taught at her alma mater for three years before she moved to Ohio, where she taught at Western College. In Illinois, she worked for Knox College as the principal of the Woman's Department and a faculty member, teaching Moral Philosophy, Rhetoric, and…
Clawson Hall on the Western Campus of Miami University
Alumnae Hall was the central building on Western College's campus from 1892 until it was torn down in 1977.
Lilian Wyckoff Johnson, the first woman to receive a doctorate from Cornell University, served as president of Western College from 1904 to 1906.