Name Katharine Coman Role Economist | Education University of Michigan | |
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Died January 11, 1915, Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States Books The industrial history of the United States | ||
Katharine Coman (November 23, 1857 – January 11, 1915) was an American social activist, historian and economist. She specialized in teaching about the development of the American West. Wellesley College named a professorship in her honor.
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She was born to Levi Parsons Coman and Martha Seymour in Newark, Ohio, and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1880.
She was professor of history (1883–1900), then chaired the Economics Department, and was dean of Wellesley College. Coman lived in a Boston marriage with fellow professor Katharine Lee Bates (author of "America the Beautiful") for 25 years, from 1890 until Coman's death from breast cancer in 1915.
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