Mary Garrett, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mary Garrett

American suffragist

Date of Birth: 05-Mar-1854

Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1915

Profession: suffragette, philanthropist, suffragist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Mary Elizabeth Garrett (5 March 1854 - 3 April 1915) was an American suffragist and philanthropist.
She was the youngest child and only daughter of John W.
Garrett, a philanthropist and president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B.
& O.).
Well-known for her "coercive philanthropy," Mary Garrett donated money to start the Johns Hopkins University Medical School in 1893 on the condition that the school would accept female students "on the same terms as men." She founded the Bryn Mawr School, a private college-preparatory school for girls in Baltimore and generously donated to Bryn Mawr College of Pennsylvania with the requirement that her intimate friend, Martha Carey Thomas, be the president.
Like many other suffragists of the nineteenth century, Garrett chose not to marry; instead, she kept a lifelong working and emotional relationship with Thomas.
In her later years, she collaborated with her longtime friends, Susan B.
Anthony and Anna Howard Shaw, to try and secure the right for women to vote in the United States.