Della I. Hayden
Della Irving Hayden (c. 1851-1924) was an American educator. She founded Franklin Normal and Industrial Institute in Virginia in 1904. Early life Della Irving was born into slavery and raised by a grandmother in Tarboro, North Carolina until she was reunited with her mother Charlotte Irving in 1865, after Emancipation. She attended school in Franklin, Virginia, and graduated in 1877 from Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute.L. A. Scruggs''Women of Distinction: Remarkable in Works and Invincible in Character''(Scruggs 1893): 241-247. At Hampton she knew fellow students Booker T. Washington and his first wife Fannie Smith Washington. Della Irving spoke at Hampton's graduation exercises in 1877, on "Our Work as Women", and won a cash prize presented by the First Lady, Lucy Webb Hayes.Della Irving Hayden"A Graduate's Reminiscences"''The Southern Workman'' (January 1917): 59-63. Career Della Irving began teaching in rural Virginia in 1875, during a break from her studies at Hampt ...
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Women Of Distinction - Remarkable In Works And Invincible In Character (1893) (14761717376)
A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a female child or adolescent). The plural ''women'' is sometimes used in certain phrases such as "women's rights" to denote female humans regardless of age. Typically, women inherit a pair of X chromosomes, one from each parent, and are capable of pregnancy and giving birth from puberty until menopause. More generally, sex differentiation of the female fetus is governed by the lack of a present, or functioning, SRY-gene on either one of the respective sex chromosomes. Female anatomy is distinguished from male anatomy by the female reproductive system, which includes the ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus, vagina, and vulva. A fully developed woman generally has a wider pelvis, broader hips, and larger breasts than an adult man. Women have significantly less facial and other body hair, have a higher body fat composition, and are on average shorter and less muscular than men. Througho ...
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