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Arabella Mansfield became the first woman lawyer in the United States to be admitted to practice law in Henry County Iowa in 1869. She studied law for two years in her brother's law office in Mount Pleasant Iowa to prepare for the bar exam.Despite her admission to the bar, she never practice law instead she spent her professional life teaching. She was a professor of English at Iowa Wesleyan College and later, dean of the school of art and music at De Pauw University in Indiana. She died in 1911 at age 65.
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Arabella Mansfield became the first woman lawyer in the United States to be admitted to practice law in Henry County Iowa in 1869. She studied law for two years in her brother's law office in Mount Pleasant Iowa to prepare for the bar exam.Despite her admission to the bar, she never practice law instead she spent her professional life teaching. She was a professor of English at Iowa Wesleyan College and later, dean of the school of art and music at De Pauw University in Indiana. She died in 1911 at age 65.
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Host: Erick Nganyange
Email: [email protected]
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