biography
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| female
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| (1858–1948)
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| biography:
| Home economist and educator, born in Thun, Switzerland. She was raised and educated in Boston. She joined the faculty of the University of Chicago, teaching sanitary science, and was the nation's first dean of women, developing the women's house system (1892–1925). With Ellen H Richards she edited Home Sanitation (1887), and other works include The Education of Women (1910) and The Modern Household (1912). |
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