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2015 Summer - Thetford Historical Society
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Mary Hosford (Fisher) from Thetford, Vermont was the first woman in the western world to receive a college bachelor's degree. This is a legitimate and accepted fact, although it must certainly be known that she was alphabetically the first of the three young women to walk across the platform to be handed their diplomas at.
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