History of Winthrop, (Kennebec County) Maine United States of America

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Alice Hanson Luce Biographical Sketch

Alice Hanson Luce, educator, was born in Winthrop, Maine, June 24, 1861; daughter of George Gorman and Hannah Jane (Carr) Luce, and granddaughter of Gorham and Sabrina (Joy) Lure and of Daniel and Patience (Noyes) Carr. She attended the Edward Little high school at Auburn, Maine, and was graduated front Wellesley college, B.A., 1883. She was a teacher at the Putnam, Conn., high school, 1883-84; the Wellesley high school, 1884-83; the Girls' Latin school, Boston, Mass., 1885-93; studied in Leipzig university, 1893-95, and was regularly matriculated at Heidelburg university, in 1895. She was the first American woman to receive the doctor's degree from the philosophical faculty of Heidelberg university, it being conferred on her in 1896. She was teacher in the English department of Smith college, 1896-97; in the department of English literature at Wellesley college, 1897-1900. and was appointed dean of women and full professor of English literature at Oberlin college, April 14, 1900. She is the author of: The Countess of Pembroke's Antonio "(1897), her inaugural dissertation presented to the philosophical faculty at Heidelberg, for the degree of Ph.D.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor