Alice Freeman Palmer

Alice Freeman Palmer was an American educator. As Alice Freeman, she was President of Wellesley College from 1881 to 1887, when she left to marry the Harvard professor George Herbert Palmer. From 1892 to 1895 she was Dean of Women at the newly founded University of Chicago.

She was born Alice Elvira Freeman in Colesville, New York and brought up in Windsor, New York. Her parents both came from welltodo families with interests in lumber, dairy farming, and land. Alice was born a farmers daughter, but as her father knew there was no future in it, he let the family take care of the farm while he gained further education and became a doctor. He enrolled in medical school in 1861 and graduated in 1864.

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