Hamilton Female College Delegation in Lexington's 1916 Suffrage Parade

Randolph Hollingsworth (she/her) Blog Post

Perhaps it was the charisma of the vision that the new president Burris Jenkins had for a rejuvenated Transylvania College soon after he arrived in 1901. Perhaps it was the long tradition of Lexington's support for women's professional education and higher learning. At any rate, new faculty hires at Transylvania and the newly merged Hamilton Female College in the early 1900s created a unique grouping of women's rights activists. Dedicated to new ideas within their churches about women's roles in civic engagement, and ambitious about becoming experts in their academic fields, several women of