Re: Maria SANFORD - Connecticut
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Maria SANFORD - Connecticut
Margaret McPhillips 1/11/04
There is a short paragraph on her in one of my DAR magazines.It might be from March/April 2011.This explains the name of one of the DAR chapters:
"The Maria Sanford Chapter, Minneapolis, Minnesota, is named after one of the first female professors in the United States and the first at the University of Minnesota, where she began teaching subjects including rhetoric, elocution, literature and art history in 1880.Prior to that post, Maria had taught history at Swarthmore College for nearlydecade.She championed women's rights, supported education for blacks, pioneered the concept of adult education and participated in early parent-teacher organizations.Maria's statue is in the US Capitol Visitor Center.It's one of two statues representing important figures in Minnesota history in the National Statuary Hall collection.A DAR member, she later traveled the United States delivering patriotic speeches, the most famous being 'An Apostrophe to the Flag,' delivered at the NSDAR Continental Congress in 1920 shortly before her death."