Myrtilla Miner
(1815-1864)
American educator and abolitionist
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Myrtilla Miner (March 4, 1815, near Brookfield, New York – December 17, 1864, Washington, DC) was an American educator and abolitionist whose school for African American girls, established against considerable racist opposition, grew into the only public university in Washington, D.C. Miner was educated at the Clover Street Seminary in Rochester, New York (1840–44), and taught at various schools, including the Newton Female Institute (1846–47) in Whitesville, Mississippi, where she was denied permission to conduct classes for African American girls.
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4 March 1815
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17 December 1864 (aged 49)
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