Bibb County GaArchives Obituaries.....Benson, Katherine E. 1908 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00010.html#0002476 March 24, 2005, 9:20 pm The Marion County Patriot, March 6, 1908 The Marion County Patriot, No. 8 Friday, March 6, 1908 Page Two Georgia Briefs Wesleyan’s First Graduate Dead Mrs. Katherine E. Benson is dead at her home in Macon after several weeks’ illness. She was the first graduate of Wesleyan College and was the first woman in the world to receive a diploma from a chartered college. She was widely known and beloved as a woman of excellent Christian character. She had reached the advanced age of 86. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/bibb/obits/b/benson6801ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.1 Kb