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Mary Jane Patterson died in 1894.
Oberlin college Ohio
1840
Mary Jane Patterson died in 1894 of unknown causes. The influential African-American school teacher and principal taught until the time she died.
She was the first African American woman to receive a bachelor's degree.
She didn't go to college. She didn't even graduate from high school. She got her GED & that was it.
John Tyler graduated from William and Mary's College.
NYU
He was there from 1754 to 1775.
Mary A. Patterson Memorial was created in 1924.
The first African American woman to graduate from college was not Mary Jane Patterson in 1862, as previously acknowledged.The answer may never be definitively answered, as there were probably many Black women "passing" for white who may have attended and graduated from college in the early to mid-19th Century--if not earlier.Of the Black women (who did not pass for white) who attended college in the 19th Century was Portland, ME-born Adeline Eliza Hampton (née Freeman) who matriculated into Oberlin College in 1856. Her younger sister, Mary Christiana Wheeler (née Freeman) also attended Oberlin, graduating in 1873.
Mary Jane is also spelled as Mary Jane in Tagalog. Although the Tagalog translation of Mary Jane is Maria Juana.