Person:Ellen Semple (5)

Ellen Churchill Semple

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m. Abt 1860

Facts and Events

Name	Ellen Churchill Semple
Gender	Female
Birth^[1]^[2]	8 Jan 1863	Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States
Death^[1]^[2]	8 May 1932	West Palm Beach, Palm Beach, Florida, United States
Burial^[1]^[2]		Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United StatesCave Hill Cemetery

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Ellen Churchill Semple, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Ellen Churchill Semple, in Find A Grave.

Geographer. Advisor to President Woodrow Wilson for the Versailles Peace Conference of 1919; based on her work in establishing geography as a legitimate field, the University of Kentucky honored her by making her the first woman to receive an honorary degree. Charter member and president of the Association of American Geographers. Semple was the first woman to be placed in the president's position in any national academic organization ever in the United States. (bio by: Mike Maloney)
Patrick Hogue (Samples). The Samples / Semples Family.
Kleber, John E. The Kentucky encyclopedia. (Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, c1992)
Page 809, 2015.