Emma Willard
PersonAmerican educator and women's rights activist, 1787-1870
Emma Willard was an American female education activist who dedicated her life to education. She worked in several schools and founded the first school for women's higher education in the United States, the Troy Female Seminary in Troy, New York. With the success of her school, Willard was able to travel across the country and abroad to promote education for women. The seminary was renamed the Emma Willard School in 1895 in her honor.
| Born | 1787-02-23 |
| Died | 1870-04-15 |
Related · Person
Barack Obama
president of the United States from 2009 to 2017 (born 1961)
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
Ronald Reagan
president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and actor (
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
Plato
4th-century BCE Greek philosopher
Muhammad
Arabian political leader and the founder of Islam (c. 570–63
George W. Bush
President of the United States from 2001 to 2009
Data sourced from Wikidata (Q175615)