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Virginia Meredith, Mary Mathews pioneered in 'domestic science'education
Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and 300 other women's rights pioneers met nearly
150 years ago in Seneca Falls, N.Y., to press for an array of societal changes. At
the top of the list was the vote. Other reforms included temperance and the abolition
of slavery. Another was making a college education open to women. All but the most
progressive colleges at that time barred women. That same year - 1848 - Virginia
Claypool was born on a farm near Connersville, Ind. She would go on to live out the
dream of the delegates at Seneca Falls.
A graduate of Glendale College near Cincinnati, Virginia Claypool Meredith in 1921
was the first woman appointed to the Purdue Board of Trustees.
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