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Harriet <I>Whitney</I> Collins

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Harriet Whitney Collins

Birth
Death
9 Mar 1903 (aged 89)
Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio, USA
Burial
Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section 2, Lot 4
Memorial ID
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She was Toledo's first female teacher. She was also the only female who had a high school named after her, Harriet Whitney Vocational Technical High School.
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Toledo Public Schools' demolition of the former Harriet Whitney Vocational Technical High School is nearing completion. Named for Toledo's first woman teacher, who taught classes in a log cabin in 1834 when she was 16 years old, Harriet Whitney was a girls vocational school open from 1939 to 1991 on Washington Street between 16th and 17th streets in Toledo, Ohio.
Read more at http://www.toledoblade.com/gallery/Harriet-Whitney-High-School-Demolition#iochoaClICqmod0l.99
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She was Toledo's first female teacher. She was also the only female who had a high school named after her, Harriet Whitney Vocational Technical High School.
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Toledo Public Schools' demolition of the former Harriet Whitney Vocational Technical High School is nearing completion. Named for Toledo's first woman teacher, who taught classes in a log cabin in 1834 when she was 16 years old, Harriet Whitney was a girls vocational school open from 1939 to 1991 on Washington Street between 16th and 17th streets in Toledo, Ohio.
Read more at http://www.toledoblade.com/gallery/Harriet-Whitney-High-School-Demolition#iochoaClICqmod0l.99
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