JONES, FLORENCE CALDWELL

Civil engineer (1868-1937)

Florence Caldwell Jones was the first woman to graduate from the Colorado School of Mines. She graduated in 1898. She may have been the third woman in the US to get an engineering degree.

With thanks to Dr Karen Tichenor there are two reference web sites.

http://www.mines.edu/All_about/public/FloJoscholarships.htm and

http://www.mines.colorado.edu/Academic/affairs/wisem/history1.html

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