biography
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Van Rensselaer, Martha
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1864–1932)
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| biography:
| Home economist, born in Randolph, New York, USA. A rural schoolteacher and school commissioner, she joined the faculty of Cornell University (1900). There she organized extension programmes, co-chaired the new home economics department where she created a degree programme, and became co-director (1925) of the New York State College of Home Economics. |
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