Deaths

Antionette Louisa Brown Blackwell, 96, abolitionist, woman's rights advocate, and first woman ordained as a minister in the United States (by the Congregational Church in 1853), 5 November 1921.

Richard Henry Boyd, 79, who was born a slave, became a Baptist minister in 1870, and built Baptist churches all over Texas, 27 August 1922.

Charles Horton Cooley, 65, University of Michigan professor who, through his reading and writings, laid the groundwork for the study of sociology; he was a founder and the first president of the American Sociological Society, 8 May 1929.

John Cotton Dana, 72, librarian who introduced open shelves, children's departments, and branch libraries during his forty years of public-library service in Denver, Colorado; Springfield, Massachusetts; and Newark, New Jersey, 21 July 1929.

Lucy Flower, 84, social reformer who worked for the establishment of the...

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