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Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary ăgˈəsē [key], 1822–1907, American author and educator, b. Boston. In 1850 she married Louis Agassiz, and together they established the pioneering Agassiz School for girls in Boston (1856–65).
May 15, 2023 · Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz (née Cary) (December 5, 1822 – June 27, 1907) was an American educator, and the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College. A researcher of natural history, she was a contributing author to many scientific published works with her husband, Louis Agassiz. view all.
May 14, 2019 · Elizabeth Cary Agassiz. Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz (December 5, 1822-June 27, 1907) was an early advocate for the education of women. However, she was conservative about women’s rights. Instrumental in the founding of the Harvard Annex—later Radcliffe College, she would serve as its first president.
Oct 24, 2021 · Elizabeth Cabot Cary was born December 5, 1822 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States. She was a daughter of Thomas Graves Cary Mary Ann Cushing Perkins. She married Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz in 1850 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States .
Born Elizabeth Cabot Cary to a prominent Boston family, she received education at home. Her life mission was to pave the way for women to have equal access to higher education. As a first step, at the age of 33, she established a home school for female students, hosting Harvard faculty lecturers.
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From 1855-1859, she ran the Agassiz school for girls, and in 1879, having been widowed in 1873, she became one of the seven Lady Managers of the Society for the Private Collegiate Instruction for Women (Harvard Annex).Elizabeth Cary Agassiz became the first President of the Society in 1882, and of Radcliffe College on its incorporation in 1894.
