Hortense Parker

Hortense Parker

Hortense Parker (1859-1938) was the daughter of African American inventor, industrialist and abolitionist, John Parker.

She was born in Ripley, Ohio [http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=2465] and is the "first known African American graduate" of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary," graduating in 1883. [http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/develop/giving/cornerstone.shtml] [http://www.mtholyoke.edu/lits/8050.shtml] [http://www.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu/events/conf07/asoc07.pdf] Parker taught elementary school from 1906-1913/14 [http://www.kclibrary.org/localhistory/media.cfm?mediaID=214116] . She died on December 9, 1938 in Missouri. [http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=2465]

External links

* [http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=2465 Biography]
* [http://mtholyoke.cdmhost.com/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/p1030coll8&CISOPTR=2558&CISOBOX=1&REC=15 Photograph of Mount Holyoke students c. 1883 including Hortense Parker]
* [http://mtholyoke.cdmhost.com/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/p1030coll8&CISOPTR=4150&CISOBOX=1&REC=18 Photograph of Hortense Parker in 1932]


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