Sophonisba breckenridge biography of mahatma

Women's Intellectual Contributions to the Study of Mind and Society Students, as part of an advanced seminar, examined and wrote about the lives of these women, their intellectual contributions, and the unique impact and special problems that being female had on their careers.
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Sophonisba Breckinridge

(April 1, 1866- July 30, 1948)

by Nicolle Bettis

Childhood

Sophonisba Preston was born second of seven to Issa Desha and William Campbell Preston Breckinridge, a lawyer, Confederate colonel, journalist and a Congressman (1971).

Sophonisba was the great-granddaughter of John Breckinridge who was a Senator of Kentucky and Attorney General under Jefferson. He was also a cousin of John C. Breckinridge who ran against Abraham Lincoln in 1860 (1971).

William Preston was a Southern Liberal who believed that women had a right to education and emphasized to his daughter that she should continue the