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Stevenson (SARA YORKE Mrs)

SARA YORKE (Mrs.

Cornelius Stevenson), an American archæologist, born at Paris, France, in 1847. She was educated in Paris until 1862, and later lived in Mexico, marrying Cornelius Stevenson of Philadelphia, in 1870. The University of Pennsylvania bestowed upon her the honorary degree of Sc. D., the first honorary degree ever conferred by this institution on a woman. In 1897 she was secretary of the American Exploration Society, and in 1904 president of the department of archæology, University of Pennsylvania.

From 1894 to 1901 she was a trustee, and since 1908 curator, of the Philadelphia Museums; and from 1899 to 1903 president of the Pennsylvania branch of the Archæological Institute of America. She took an active part in the civic affairs of Philadelphia, being at various times an officer of the Civic Club, and since 1914 its honorary president. In 1909 she was president of the Pennsylvania Equal Suffrage Society. In 1897 she went to Rome on a special mission for the department of archæology of the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1898 to Egypt for the American Exploration Society. During the World War she was the chairman of various relief committees in Philadelphia, and was made by the French Government Officier d'Instruction Publique. She wrote, besides many articles on Egyptian archæology and other topics: "Maximilian in Mexico." In 1908 she became literary editor of the Philadelphia "Public Ledger."

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