Emily Jordan Folger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Co-founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library
Date of Birth: 15-May-1858
Place of Birth: Ironton, Ohio, United States
Date of Death: 21-Feb-1936
Profession: organizational founder
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Emily Jordan Folger
- Emily Jordan Folger (May 15, 1858 – February 21, 1936), was the wife of Henry Clay Folger and the co-founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
- During her husband's lifetime, she assisted him in building the world's largest collection of Shakespeare materials.
- After his death in 1930, she funded the completion of the Folger Shakespeare Library to house the collection, remaining involved with its administration until her death in 1936.
- In 1932, she became the third woman to receive an honorary degree from Amherst College, following Mary Emma Woolley, president of Mount Holyoke College, in 1901; and Martha Dickinson Bianchi, editor of Emily Dickinson's poems, in 1931.,
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