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Cheeshahteaumuck became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard in 1665. He died of tuberculosis in Watertown, Massachusetts less than a year after graduation. [3] [4] [5] One document remains from Cheeshahteaumuck's time at Harvard which he purportedly wrote, [2] written entirely in Latin.
Richard Theodore Greener (1844–1922) was a pioneering African-American scholar, excelling in elocution, philosophy, law and classics in the Reconstruction era.He broke ground as Harvard College's first Black graduate in 1870. [1]
Eliot used the German model to set up graduate programs at Harvard and he formed a graduate department in 1872, which granted its first Ph.D. degrees in 1873 to William Byerly in mathematics and Charles Whitney in history. Eliot set up the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences with its own dean and budget in 1890, which dealt with graduate ...
First medical doctor in California and first Harvard graduate in California. Rustin McIntosh (1894–1986) College 1914; M.D. 1918 Pediatrician [129] Curtis T. McMullen (born 1958) PhD 1985 Fields Medal winner Scott McNealy (born 1954) College 1976 Co-founder and chairman of Sun Microsystems [130] John S. Meyer (1924–2011) Physician
Michelle Obama is also a Harvard Law School graduate, from the class of 1988. As the first-ever African-American First Lady, Obama has championed health, higher education, and support for service ...
First African American dentist Robert Tanner Freeman (c. 1846–1873) was an American dentist. As one of the first six students to attend the Harvard School of Dental Medicine , he became the first African American to graduate with a dental degree in the United States on March 10, 1869.
On this day in history, the first 12 women graduated from the prestigious Harvard Medical School. The Harvard Medical School listed the graduates' names on their website: First female graduates ...
Mildred Fay Jefferson (April 6, 1927 – October 15, 2010) [1] was an American physician and anti-abortion activist.The first black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School, the first woman to graduate in surgery from Harvard Medical School, and the first woman to become a member of the Boston Surgical Society, she is known for her opposition to the legalization of abortion and her work ...