Mary Garrett

Mary Garrett (5 March 1854 - 1915) was an American suffragist and philanthropist.

Biography

Mary Garrett was the daughter of John W. Garrett, a philanthropist and president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O). She became the wealthiest "spinster woman" in the country with demise of her father.

Garrett helped found the Bryn Mawr College for women. She also endowed the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and secured the rights of women to attend thus making it the first co-educational, graduate-level medical school in the United States.

At her death, she gave $15,000,000 to M. Carey Thomas, the president of Bryn Mawr College, with whom she was romantically involved and had been living together with at the time.^[1]

She is buried in Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, MD.

References

1. ^ Lillian Faderman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America, Penguin Books Ltd, 1991, page 30. ISBN 0231074883

External links

• http://www.medicalarchives.jhmi.edu/garrett/introduction2.htm
• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/exhibits/sargent/garrett.html

This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.

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Name	Garrett, Mary
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Date of birth	5 March 1854
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Date of death	1915
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