Mary Edmonia Lewis, also known as "Wildfire" (c. July 4, 1844 – September 17, 1907), was an American sculptor. In 1859, when Edmonia Lewis was about 15 years old, her brother Samuel and abolitionists sent her to Oberlin, Ohio, where she attended the secondary Oberlin Academy Preparatory School before entering Oberlin Collegiate Institute(since 1866, Oberlin College), one of the first U.S. higher-learning institutions to admit women and people of differing ethnicities.The Ladies' Department was designed "to give Young Ladies facilities for the thorough mental discipline, and the special training. (Sculpture above at the Allen Museum at Oberlin.
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