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Gertrude Amelia Mahorney
Born 1863
United States
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Gertrude Amelia Mahorney became the first documented African-American woman to graduate from an Indiana college or university when she received a bachelor's degree from Butler University in 1887. In 1889, she also earned a master's degree from Butler.
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