History of Canterbury, (Merrimack County) New Hampshire United States of America

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Mary Mills Patrick, educator, was born in Canterbury, N.H., March 10, 1850; daughter of John and Harriet (White) Patrick; granddaughter of William and Mary (Gerrish) Patrick, and John and Mary (May) White, and great-granddaughter of John Patrick, her first ancestor in America, who came from the north of Ireland and settled in Warren, Mass. She attended Franklin and Boscawen academies, New Hampshire; Lyons college, Iowa; studied privately at Heidelberg and in the universities of Z?rich, 1893-94, Leipzig, 1894, Berlin, 1895, and Berne, 1896-97. She received the honorary degree of A.M. from the University of Iowa, 1890, and the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Berne, 1897. She made special language study in ancient and modern Armenian, ancient and modern Greek, French, German and Turkish, and studied in several libraries in Europe, making research on the subject of Pyrrhonism. She was elected president of the American College for Women, in Constantinople, Turkey, 1890, and member of the psychological congresses, Munich, 1896, Paris, 1900, and Philosophical congress, Paris, 1900. She is the author of: Armenian Translation of Text Book on Physiology (1876); Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism (1899), and popular articles, including: Education of Women in Turkey (Forum, June, 1896); Women's Struggle for Liberty in Germany (Popular Science Monthly, January, 1900); Ethics of the Koran (International Journal of Ethics, April, 1901.)

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

History of Canterbury, (Merrimack County) New Hampshire

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