“Mrs. Winchell, wife of the president of the Minnesota State University, kindly sent us the names of the fifty-six young women who were graduated from that institution between 1875 and 1885: Class of ’75, Helen Mar Ely; ’76, Martha Butler; ’77, Matilda J. Campbell, Viola Fuller, Charlotte A. Rollet, Mary A. Maes; ’78, Mary Robinson, Nettie Getchel; ’79, Marian H. Roe, Caroline Rollet, Martha J. West, Evelyn May Champlin, Etta Medora Eliot; ’80, Lizzie A. House, Bessie S. Lawrence, Minnie Reynolds, Lillian Todd, Cora Inez Brown; ’81, Emily Hough, Diana Burns, Sarah E. Palmer, Lilla Ruth Williams; ’82, Carrie Holt, Lydia Holt, Mary Eliza Holt, Alice E. Demmon, Louise Lillian Hilbourn, Emily D. McMillan, Ada Eva Pillsbury, Agnes V. Bonniwell, Grace W. Curtis, Marie Louise Henry, Mary Nancy Hughes, Carrie D. Fletcher; ’83, Annie Harriet Jefferson, Kate Louise Kennedy, Sarah Pierrepont McNair, Anna Calista Marston, Janet Nunn, Emma Frances Trussell, Helen Louise Pierce, Martha Sheldon, Louise E. Hollister, Emma J. Ware; ’84, Hannah Sewall, Susie Sewall, Anna Bonfoy, Bessie Latho, Addie Kingsbury, Belle Bradford, Emma Twinggi; ’85, Mary Benton, Bertha Brown, Ida Mann, Mary Irving, Mabel Smith.”

Reference Data:

History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 3, by Ida Husted Harper, 1886, 974