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Kate Stoneman Graduates

1866

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Kate Stoneman graduated from the State Normal College. A prominent suffragist, she would later become the first woman lawyer in New York State in 1886. In 1880, she successfully lobbied the New York State legislature to allow women to elect local school boards. She taught penmanship at the State...

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Harriet E. Twoguns Graduates

1865 July 13

Harriet E. Twoguns of the Cattaraugus Reservation graduates, the first Native American student to do so. Twoguns taught African-American children in the south for twenty years after graduation. Harriet Twoguns’ descendent, Lee Leroy, received a Distinguished Alumni Award in her honor in 1971.