Olympia Brown
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Olympia Brown (1835-1926) was a famous Women's suffragist. Being determined to go to college, she managed to go to the Mary Lyons's Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. After being the first woman to graduate at the theological school of the St. Lawrence University in 1863, she was the first woman do be ordained as a Universalist minister
In 1873 she married John Henry Willis.
Olympia Brown was member of the Woman's Party and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
In 1999 she was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame.
External links
Olympia Brown in the Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography (http://www.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/olympiabrown.html)