Harriet Connor Brown
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September 11, 1872
Harriet Connor Brown | |
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 Harriet Connor Brown, 1894 | |
| Born | Harriet Chedie Connor September 11, 1872 Burlington, Iowa, US |
| Died | July 9, 1962 (aged 89) Ithaca, New York, US |
| Occupations | Women's rights activist and author |
Harriet Connor Brown (September 11, 1872 – July 9, 1962) was an American women's rights activist and an author. She was the first woman to win the Woodford Prize from Cornell University. Brown wrote for multiple newspapers and the United States government. Her book Grandmother Brown's Hundred Years, 1827–1927 won the Atlantic Monthly Prize in 1929.
Harriet Connor Brown was born as Harriet Chedie Connor on September 11, 1872, in Burlington, Iowa. She went to Wheaton Seminary in Norton, Massachusetts, over a winter before attending Cornell University.[1] She was a part of the university's newspaper The Cornell Era in 1893. She was the first woman editor to be on the newspaper's staff and was the first woman that won the Woodford Prize in oration from Cornell University with a speech based on religious thought titled "The Letter and the Spirit".[2][3] The Woodford Prize is the highest award that can be given to Cornell University students.[3] The five students that she competed against were all male. She graduated from Cornell in 1894 and studied in Berlin for a year after receiving a scholarship from the Association of Collegiate Alumni. While in Berlin, the German government awarded her a teacher's certificate. She taught at a Burlington High School for a year. She had a daughter and a granddaughter. Brown died on July 9, 1962, in Ithaca, New York.[4]
