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Documents for "Home Economics: Biographies":

• Richards, Ellen Henrietta Swallow 1842-1911, American chemist, educator, and organizer of the home economics movement, b. Dunstable, Mass., grad. Vassar, 1870. In 1870 she began the study of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute...

• Van Rensselaer, Martha 1864-1932, American home economist and pioneer in the development of extension courses for women in rural areas, b. Randolph, N. Y. In 1900 she joined the faculty of Cornell Univ. to give extension...