Mary Lathrop Benton
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- Professor
- Dean of Women
Mary Lathrop Benton | |
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.png) Benton in a 1924 publication. | |
| Born | February 26, 1864 Bhamdoun, Mount Lebanon, Syria (now part of Lebanon) |
| Died | August 12, 1955 Berkeley, California, U.S. |
| Citizenship | U.S. |
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| Parent(s) | Rev. William Austin Benton & Mrs. Loanza Goulding Benton, missionaries |
| Relatives | William Benton (nephew) |
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| Education | University of Minnesota (A.B., 1885) |
| Alma mater | Smith College (Honorary Doctor of Humanities, 1914) |
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Mary Lathrop Benton (1864–1955) was a Syrian-born American professor of Latin and French at Smith College. She also served as Dean of Women at Carleton College.[1]
Mary Lathrop Benton was born in Bhamdoun, Mount Lebanon, Syria (now part of Lebanon), February 26, 1864. Her parents, Rev. William Austin Benton and Mrs. Loanza Goulding Benton,[1] were missionaries of the Congregational Church.[2] She was brought to the U.S. in 1869, spending her childhood in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts.[3][4]
Benton received an A.B. degree at the University of Minnesota in 1885 (Phi Beta Kappa). For two and half years, she also studied in the French Normal Schools of Nîmes, Blois, and Angoulême, 1895–97. She studied in Rome and traveled abroad in 1907–08.[4] In 1914, she received an Honorary Doctor of Humanities from Smith College.[5]
