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Palmer (ALICE FREEMAN An American)

ALICE FREEMAN (1855- 1902). An American educator and a leader in the movement for the higher education of women. Born in New York State, she graduated from the University of Michigan in 1876. After teaching in the schools of Wisconsin and Michigan, in 1879 she became professor of history in Wellesley College and three years later became president. Under her leadership W Wellesley attained the front rank of women's colleges in America. In 1887 she married George Herbert Palmer, a professor in Harvard University. From 1892 until her death ten years later she was associated in a non-resident capacity with the University of Chicago.