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Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later becomes Mount Holyoke College.
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American educator (1797–1849)
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Mount Holyoke College
Private women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts, US
Mount Holyoke College is a private women's liberal arts college in South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States. It is the oldest member of the historic Seven Sisters colleges, a group of historically women’s colleges in the Northeastern United States. The college was founded in…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)