How to Pronounce Caroline Burnham Kilgore
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Jan 20, 1838 Died on 29 Jun 1909 (aged 71)
American lawyer and suffragist
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About Caroline Burnham Kilgore
- Caroline Burnham Kilgore (January 20, 1838 – June 29, 1909) was the first woman admitted to the bar in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.Kilgore was the first woman lawyer in Philadelphia.
- She was a school teacher and began to study law in 1875, when such narrow prejudice existed against woman receiving the benefit of a university course, that accompanying the refusal of her application for admission to the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania, was the courteous observation of the dean, that the time for him to resign would be when negroes and women were admitted.
- Kilgore persevered sixteen years before she became a recognized member of the bar.
