13 Notable alumni of
Elmira College
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Elmira College is 3696th in the world, 1271st in North America, and 1210th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 13 notable alumni from Elmira College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Olivia Langdon Clemens
- Biography
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Olivia Langdon Clemens was the wife of the American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known under his pen name Mark Twain.
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Kevin B. Winebold
- Occupations
- music directoractor
- Biography
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Kevin B. Winebold is a New York music director and actor.
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Fay Kanin
- Occupations
- writerscreenwriterfilm actorfilm producer
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Fay Kanin was an American screenwriter, playwright and producer. Kanin was president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1979 to 1983.
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Sheila Williams
- Occupations
- editor
- Biography
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Sheila Williams is an American science fiction editor who is the editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine.
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Alice Mary Robertson
- Occupations
- politiciansocial worker
- Biography
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Alice Mary Robertson was an American educator, social worker, Native Americans' rights activist, government official, and politician who became the second woman to serve in the United States Congress, and the first from the state of Oklahoma. Robertson was the first woman to defeat an incumbent congressman. She was known for her strong personality, commitment to Native American issues, and anti-feminist stance.
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Charlotte Blake Brown
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- 1846-1904 (aged 58)
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Charlotte Blake Brown was an American physician. She was one of the first female doctors to practice on the West Coast of the United States and was a co-founder of the Pacific Dispensary for Women and Children, and San Francisco Hospital for Children and Training School for Nurses.
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Diane Lockward
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- writerpoet
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Diane Lockward is an American poet. The author of four full-length books of poetry, Lockward serves as the Poet Laureate of West Caldwell, New Jersey.
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Mary Gray Peck
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- suffragistjournalistwriter
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Mary Gray Peck was an American journalist, educator, suffragist, and clubwoman. She was interested in economic and industrial problems of women, and investigated labor conditions in Europe and the United States. Born in New York, she studied at Elmira College, University of Minnesota, and University of Cambridge before becoming an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. Later, she became associated with the General Federation of Women's Clubs, College Equal Suffrage League, National American Woman Suffrage Association, Women's Trade Union League, Woman Suffrage Party, and the Modern Language Association. Peck was a delegate at the Sixth Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in Stockholm, 1911.
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John M. Carmody
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- 1881-1963 (aged 82)
- Occupations
- businessperson
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John Michael Carmody was an American administrator, noted as editor of Factory and Industrial Management, and as administrator of the Rural Electrification Administration and the Federal Works Agency in the 1930s.
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Mary West Niles
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- 1854-1933 (aged 79)
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- missionary
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Dr. Mary West Niles was born in Watertown, Wisconsin to Rev. William Allen Niles and Mary Elizabeth Niles. Dr Niles played an important role in the Canton Medical Missionary Society as the first woman missionary physician at the Canton Hospital. She was a pioneer physician to open school for the Blind in China, the Mingxin School (1889-1932), and in translating the English Braille system into the Cantonese /Chinese language by learning it herself first.
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Anne Kendrick Benedict
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- 1851-..
- Occupations
- writer
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Anne Elizabeth Kendrick Benedict was an American author of children's literature focusing on scientific topics, such as physiology, and an author of religious periodicals.
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Frances Linfield
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- 1852-1940 (aged 88)
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Frances Ross Linfield was an American educator, social activist and philanthropist. In 1922, she made a gift to McMinnville College worth $250,000, prompting the school to change its name to Linfield College, in honor of her late husband, the Rev. George Fisher Linfield. In 2020, the school became Linfield University.
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Frances Boardman Squire Potter
- Occupations
- suffragistlecturerwriter
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Frances Boardman Squire Potter was an American academic and activist.
