Luella Clay Carson (1856-1938) was an educator and university president in the U.S. states of

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and

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. Carson was born in

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to pioneer parents. She taught at

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prior to becoming the first chair of the English Department at the

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in 1888. She became the Dean of Women there in 1895, and remained with the university until 1909. Carson departed to become the fifth president of

Mills College Mills College at Northeastern University is a private college in Oakland, California and part of Northeastern University's global university system. Mills College was founded as the Young Ladies Seminary in 1852 in Benicia, California; it was ...

(from 1909 to 1914). Carson Hall, a women's residence at the University of Oregon, was named in her honor. She was writer, best known for her ''Handbook of English Composition'', a textbook on English grammar and style adopted by Wellesley College and the New York City public schools.

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University of Oregon faculty Presidents of Mills College Educators from Portland, Oregon 1856 births 1933 deaths Pacific University faculty American women academics Women heads of universities and colleges {{California-stub