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Mary Louisa Cobb

1899–1976 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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StorylineWomen students at the University, 1914–19211914–1921 · 8 events · Women were registered in every department and professional school of the University by the fall of 1916, and by 1921 they had two houses of their own. Cora Zeta Corpening enrolled in 1914 as what Covington's history calls the first woman candidate for a medical degree, and Margaret Berry of Hillsborough graduated from the law school in 1915, the first woman to do so according to the guide to her papers. In 1916 the News called the women's registration in all departments a first, and they organized a co-ed club. In 1921, after years of pleas from adviser Inez Stacy, the university gave women two houses, room for about forty-five of the sixty-five enrolled.

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  1. The university first admits freshman women, limited to daughters of Chapel Hill families From 1917 freshman and sophomore women were taken only from families living in Chapel Hill, and they lived at home. The first four were Mary Louisa Cobb, Nell Abbie Patterson Pickard, Mary Louise Stover and Lillie Dell Witaker. People: Mary Louisa Cobb Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: Nell Abbie Patterson Pickard, Mary Louise Stover, Lillie Dell WitakerSearch the index · Pamela Dean, Women on the Hill: A History of Women at the University of North Carolina (1987), scan p. 15

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Lucy M. Cobb papers, 1928-1965.

Cobb, Lucy M. (Lucy Maria), 1877-1969 · 1928

Opera librettos and scores sit alongside genealogy in the papers of Lucy Maria Cobb (1877-1969), dated 1928 to 1965, about 2,000 items in three linear feet, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4019. Topics include American women authors in North Carolina, the social conditions of single women, aging in the state, family history, and social life in Chapel Hill. Mary Louisa Cobb is also named.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Cobb, Mary Louisa, 1899-1976.

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