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Annie Smith Peck

Annie Smith Peck was an adventurer, teacher, author, and mountain climber who achieved new heights for women, not just by scaling summits but through…
Vernie Merze Tate
Vernie Merze Tate was an African American scholar of international affairs.
Anna Margaretha Auer Picklemann List
First midwife in Frankenmuth, Michigan
Jean Goodnow
First female college president in the mid-Michigan area
Martha Longstreet
First recorded female doctor in Saginaw, Michigan
Martha Hay
Female lumber company owner in late 19th c.
Audra Francis
First female member of the Saginaw City Council and first female chair of the Saginaw County Commission
Alice Freeman Palmer
President of Wellesley College in the late 19th c. and ardent supporter of women's education
Aleda Lutz
First American woman to be killed in action during WWII
Agnes Wells
Taught mathematics and astronomy at the university level in the 1910s