d. December 27th 1952 • Location: G, 266
The modern world owes a lot to Mary Engle Pennington, bacteriologist and refrigeration engineer. Working as the first female lab chief for the Food Research Laboratory (predecessor of the FDA), she se…
d. February 22nd 1901 • Location: 7, 77-80
Towne was an educator, abolitionist and homeopathic physician from Pittsburgh. At the outbreak of the Civil War she moved to South Carolina and opened the first school for freed slaves with her friend…
d. April 29th 1879 • Location: X, 61
Editor of Godey’s Lady Book, a crusader for women’s medical education, author of “Mary Had a Little Lamb” and the person chiefly credited with establishing Thanksgiving as a na…
d. October 20th 1836 • Location: E, 1
The first burial in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Carlisle was a Quaker woman who planned her own interment. A thin marble marker was placed on her grave originally, but deteriorated over time; this monument …
