Martha Emily Foote Crow (1854 – January 1, 1924) was an American educator and writer. Born in

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"Martha Foote Crow Papers: an inventory of her papers at Syracuse University"
Syracuse University, May 1990. she played an important role in the development of higher education for women in the

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.Rossiter, Margaret W. "Doctorates for American Women, 1868-1907". ''History of Education Quarterly'' 22, no. 2 (Summer): 159–183.

Biography

Martha Foote Crowe was born in

, to Reverend John B. and Mary Pendexter (Stilphen) Foote in 1854. In 1872, while studying at Syracuse University, she was one of the founding members of the sorority

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Alpha Phi. . She earned a Ph.B. in 1876 and Ph.M. in 1878, and finally her

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in English literature in 1886, all at Syracuse. In 1885, she married John M. Crow, an archaeologist. John Crow joined the faculty of

Iowa College Grinnell College is a private liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa, United States. It was founded in 1846 when a group of New England Congregationalists established the Trustees of Iowa College. Grinnell has the fifth highest endowment-to-stu ...

(now

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) in 1884, and Martha Foote Crow became "Lady Principal" of the college (1884–1891) and preceptress (1884–1888) of the academy that operated under the college's auspices.Nollen, John Scholte
"Grinnell College"
Cedar Rapids, Iowa: The State Historical Society Of Iowa, 1953. While at Iowa College, she participated in the work of the

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,"Association of Collegiate Alumnae Records, 1882-1917?", n.d. http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss323.html. coordinating an international survey of women's higher education.Крау, Марфа Фут. ( Joseph Gottwald, trans.) Letter, December 8, 1890. Рукопись 2897 ар. КФУ НБ им Лобачевского ОРРК.Crow, Martha Foote. "The status of foreign collegiate education of women. A partial abstract of the Report on Educational Progress presented by the Special Committee to the Association of Collegiate Alumnae on Oct. 24, 1891". Series II, no. 37; History of women, reel 945, no. 8751. .p. Association of Collegiate Alumnae, 1891. She also served as the Association's President from 1893 to 1895. Upon her husband's death from

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in 1891, Martha Foote Crow left Grinnell to become assistant professor of English literature at the

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. In 1900, she became Dean of Women at

Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...

. While at Northwestern, she participated in the formation of an association of deans of women, organizing the 1903 Conference of Deans of Women of the Middle West.“Minutes of the Conference of Deans of Women of the Middle West”. Chicago, Evanston, November 3, 1903. NAWE Archives at the National Student Affairs Archives, Center for Archival Collections, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio.Gerda, Janice J
"The 1903 Conference of Deans of Women of the Middle West"
2004. On January 1, 1924, Martha Foote Crow died in

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. In 1996,

published a biography of Martha Foote Crow.Kramer, Julia. ''The ever-widening life : the story of Martha Foote Crow''. Evanston Ill. Alpha Phi International Fraternity Foundation, 1996.

Publications

* ''Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles'' (1896) * ''The World Above'' (1905) * ''Elizabeth Barrett Browning'' (1907) * ''Harriet Beecher Stowe, a Biography'' (1913) * ''The American Country Girl'' (1915) * ''Lafayette'' (1916) * ''Christ in the Poetry of Today'' (1917)

Alpha Phi

Martha Foote Crow was one of the 10 founders of Alpha Phi International Fraternity.

References

External links

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