Mrs. Harriet Hoover Killin

Title

Mrs. Harriet Hoover Killin

Description

Portrait of Harriet Burnett Hoover Killin, the first woman to graduate from Pacific University (Class of 1869). She was married to Benton Killin. She was born in 1848 in Washington County on the Hoover Donation Land Claim, and died in 1937 at her home in Portland.
[Front] [pen, noted glued to front mat below image] Mrs. Harriet Hoover Killins. She was the first woman graduated from Pacific University. She was not allowed to sit on the platform with the men graduates. But was placed on a front bench. She passes at her Portland home in 1937 at the age of 88. She was raised on the Hoover D. L. C. a few miles north of Hillsboro.

Date Created

circa 1910s

Subject

Frontier and pioneer life
Women college graduates
Portrait photography
Killin, Harriet Burnett (Hoover)
Cultural Studies
Higher Education
Genealogy & Family History

Place

Hillsboro, Oregon

Medium

photographic prints

Language

English

Identifier

WCMpic_000791

Rights

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Source

Robert L. Benson Research Library, Five Oaks Museum

Type

Still Image

Collection