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Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz

 
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(born Dec. 5, 1822, Boston, Mass., U.S. — died June 27, 1907, Arlington Heights, Mass.) U.S. naturalist and educator. She was educated at home, and in 1850 she married Louis Agassiz. She helped organize and manage several of his field expeditions, and together they founded a marine laboratory in Buzzards Bay, Mass. After his death she pursued her idea of a college for women to be taught by the Harvard University faculty. She was instrumental in launching the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women (1882); she served as its president until 1894, when it was renamed Radcliffe College, and she continued as president until 1899.

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Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary (ăg'əsē), 1822-1907, American author and educator, b. Boston. In 1850 she married Louis Agassiz, and together they established the pioneering Agassiz School for girls in Boston (1856-65). She accompanied her husband on expeditions to Brazil (1865-66) and along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the Americas (1871-72). She was one of a group (along with Arthur Gilman and Alice Longfellow) influential in the founding of Radcliffe College, and was (1894-1903) its first president. Her writings include A Journey in Brazil (in collaboration with her husband, 1868); a biography of her husband (1885); and, with her stepson Alexander Agassiz, Seaside Studies in Natural History (1865).

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See study by L. A. Paton (1919); L. Tharp, Adventurous Alliance (1959).

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(ăg'ə-sē) pronunciation, Elizabeth Cabot Cary 1822-1907.

American educator who helped organize the predecessor of Radcliffe College (1879) and served as Radcliffe's first president (1894-1899).


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Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz
Born December 5, 1822(1822-12-05)
Boston, Massachusetts
Died June 27, 1907 (aged 84)
Nationality American
Employer Radcliffe College

Elizabeth Cabot Cary (December 5, 1822 – June 27, 1907) was an American educator, and the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College.

In 1850 she married Louis Agassiz, whom she accompanied to Brazil (1865-1866 and on the Hassler expedition in 1871-1872.

Her publications include A First Lesson in Natural History (1859); Life of Louis Agassiz; and Seaside Studies in Natural History (1865), in which she was assisted by her stepson, Alexander Emanuel Agassiz.

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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery. The entry about Louis Agassiz explains the origin of the gravestone. Note that her gravestone refers to her as "Elizabeth Cary Agassiz".

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