Milwaukee-Downer College was a women's college in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in operation from 1895 until its merger with Lawrence University in 1964. Milwaukee-Downer...
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Milwaukee-Downer College, was purchased by the state to expand the UWM campus; Milwaukee-Downer College had previously merged with Lawrence College to...
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Lawrence University (redirect from Lawrence College)
College, to emphasize its small size and liberal arts education focus. The name returned to Lawrence University when it merged with Milwaukee-Downer College...
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1905 to house Milwaukee-Downer College. The complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. Milwaukee-Downer College was formed in...
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Downer College in honor of trustee and benefactor Jason Downer. In July, 1895, Downer merged with Milwaukee College to form Milwaukee-Downer College under...
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Milwaukee-Downer Seminary was a private girls' elementary, junior high and high school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was separated from Milwaukee-Downer...
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1853, to Milwaukee Female College. In March 1876, the name was changed to Milwaukee College. In July 1895, Milwaukee College and Downer College merged to...
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Colleen Dewhurst (category Milwaukee-Downer College alumni)
Riverside High School in Milwaukee in 1942. About this time her parents separated. Dewhurst attended Milwaukee-Downer College for two years, then moved...
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Catharine Beecher (category Milwaukee-Downer College faculty)
History of Milwaukee-Downer College 1851–1951. MDC Series 33-2. Milwaukee: Centennial Publication, Nov. 1950. Carolyn King Stephens. Downer Women, 1851–2001...
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the Milwaukee Sentinel in 1845, but quit after a half year to return to his legal career. He was the namesake of Milwaukee-Downer College and Downer Avenue...
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Dominican College". Dominican College of Racine. Archived from the original on April 12, 2004. Retrieved May 21, 2012. "Milwaukee–Downer College". Lawrence...
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Liz Richardson (category Milwaukee-Downer College alumni)
in Mishawaka, Indiana. She attended Milwaukee-Downer College in 1936 specializing in Art and English. After college, she worked at the Boston Store (Wisconsin-based...
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List of Phi Beta Kappa chapters (category Lists of chapters of former Association of College Honor Societies members by society)
Gamma chapter of Wisconsin at Lawrence College was combined with the Delta chapter at Milwaukee-Downer College after the two schools merged in 1964 Originally...
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Charlotte Partridge (category Milwaukee-Downer College faculty)
school. In 1914 she joined the Fine Arts Department faculty at the Milwaukee Downer College and later became head of the Fine Arts Department where she initiated...
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Ruth Mitchell (category Milwaukee-Downer College alumni)
flying over France in 1917. She was educated at Milwaukee-Downer College and then at Vassar College. Mitchell was married three times but always preferred...
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LeBaron Russell Briggs (category Presidents of Radcliffe College)
Lucia Russell Briggs (1887–1960), who served as president of Milwaukee-Downer College for thirty years. LeBaron Russell Briggs Jr. (1895–1972), who married...
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Margaret S. Rood (category Milwaukee-Downer College alumni)
graduated from Rochester High School, earned a bachelor's degree at Milwaukee-Downer College in 1932, and received a certificate in occupational therapy in...
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Emily Hale (category Milwaukee-Downer College faculty)
drama teacher at Milwaukee-Downer College (1921–1929) (now part of Lawrence University), Scripps College (1932–1934), and Smith College (1936–1942), as...
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1910 by Lawrence Martin for the Milwaukee-Downer College for Women in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. List of glaciers "Downer Glacier". USGS National Mapping information...
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Ellen Clara Sabin (category Milwaukee-Downer College faculty)
February 3, 1949; also known as Ella) was the president of the Milwaukee-Downer College in the U.S. state of Wisconsin from 1891 to 1921. She was a well-known...
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Mary Edmonds (category Milwaukee-Downer College alumni)
She received a bachelor's degree from Milwaukee-Downer College in 1943, a master's degree from Wellesley College in 1945, and a Ph.D. from the University...
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Katherine Greacen Nelson (category Milwaukee-Downer College faculty)
excellence in geology from Vassar College.[citation needed] She was later hired by Milwaukee-Downer College as part of college's expanding geological and geographical...
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Frances Willard (category Milwaukee-Downer College alumni)
Congregationalists, became Methodists. Frances and her sister Mary attended Milwaukee Normal Institute, where their mother's sister taught. In 1858, the Willard...
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result of the merger of three schools, Milwaukee Country Day School, Milwaukee Downer Seminary, and Milwaukee University School. USM is accredited by...
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Mary Mortimer (category Milwaukee-Downer College faculty)
British-born American educator. She served as principal of the Milwaukee Female College and other women's educational institutions. When just a child,...
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Louise Adelaide Wolf (category Scientists from Milwaukee)
Division High School in Milwaukee. From 1915 to 1916 she studied at Milwaukee-Downer College (now part of the University of Wisconsin). Over the next 12 years...
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Wisconsin–Milwaukee was established in 1956, replacing the smaller Downer Avenue Teachers College. Brady Street became the focus of Milwaukee's counter-culture...
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Betsy in Spite of Herself (category Milwaukee-Downer College)
the "seminary" (high school) of Milwaukee-Downer College (rather lightly disguised as "Browner College" in Milwaukee) plays a prominent role in the novel...
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Helen Daniels Bader (category Milwaukee-Downer College alumni)
1945, traveling by train to Wisconsin to begin her studies at Milwaukee-Downer College in September of the same year. She was following in the footsteps...
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Marian College of Fond du Lac until 2008) Milwaukee-Downer College, Milwaukee (merged with Lawrence College in 1964) Mount Mary University, Milwaukee Viterbo...
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