Nora Stanton Blatch

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Nora Stanton Blatch was a pioneering American civil engineer, architect, and women's rights activist who was among the first women in the United States to earn an engineering degree.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf American
architect
civil engineer
feminist
person
suffragist
women's rights activist
activismFocus women's access to engineering professions
women's right to vote
birthDate 1883-09-30
birthPlace Basingstoke, Hampshire, England
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
United States of America
deathDate 1971-01-18
degreeEarned Bachelor of Civil Engineering
educatedAt Cornell University
employer American Bridge Company
New York City Board of Water Supply
Radley Steel Construction Company
United States Navy (civilian engineer)
familyName Blatch
fieldOfWork architecture
civil engineering
women's rights
women's suffrage
fullName Nora Stanton Blatch De Forest Barney
gender female
givenName Nora
graduationYear 1905
grandmother Elizabeth Cady Stanton
marriageEnd 1911
marriageStart 1908-02-14
memberOf American Society of Civil Engineers
mother Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch
notableAchievement among the first women in the United States to earn an engineering degree
first female junior member of the American Society of Civil Engineers
first woman to earn a degree in civil engineering from Cornell University
notableWork design and construction projects as an architect and engineer
engineering work on New York City water supply projects
politicalMovement women's rights movement
women's suffrage movement
relative Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch
residence Greenwich, Connecticut
New York City
spouse Lee De Forest
Morgan Barney

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