Mary Ann Lipscomb

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Mary Ann Lipscomb
Born
Mary Ann Rutherford

(1848-12-23)December 23, 1848
Athens, Georgia, US
DiedSeptember 13, 1918(1918-09-13) (aged 69)
Athens, Georgia, US
OccupationEducator
Spouse
Frank Adgate Lipscomb
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(m. 1869; died 1874)​
Children3
RelativesMildred Lewis Rutherford (sister)

Mary Ann Rutherford Lipscomb (1848–1918) was an American educator. She believed in childhood education, and she helped make primary education required for all children in Georgia.[1]

Biography

Mary Ann Rutherford was born in Athens, Georgia on December 23, 1848.[2] She married Frank Adgate Lipscomb in 1869, and they had three children.[3] He died in 1874.[2]

After she was widowed, Lipscomb went to work at the Lucy Cobb Institute, under the direction of her sister, Mildred Lewis Rutherford; in 1895, Lipscomb took over leadership of that school.[3][4] Lipscomb founded the Tallulah Falls School in 1909.[5]

She died at her home in Athens on September 13, 1918.[3][6]

Both Lipscomb and Rutherford have student dormitories named after them at the University of Georgia.[7] Lipscomb was named a Georgia Woman of Achievement in 2010.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Lipscomb, Mary". Georgia Women of Achievement. Archived from the original on July 13, 2013. Retrieved August 12, 2013.
  2. 1 2 Sorley, Merrow Egerton, ed. (1979). Lewis of Warner Hall. Genealogical Publishing Company. p. 463. ISBN 9780806308319. Retrieved September 11, 2025 – via Google Books.
  3. 1 2 3 "Deaths and Funerals: Mrs. M. A. Lipscomb". The Macon Daily Telegraph. Athens, Georgia (published September 15, 1918). September 14, 1918. p. 20. Retrieved September 11, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ Case, Sarah (2009). "Mildred Lewis Rutherford (1851–1928) The redefinition of New South White Womanhood". In Ann Short Chirhart & Betty Wood (ed.). Georgia Women: Their Lives and Times. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. pp. 272–296. ISBN 978-0-8203-3900-9.
  5. ↑ "TFS History". Tallulah Falls School. Retrieved August 12, 2013.
  6. ↑ "Mrs. Mary Ann Lipscomb Dies at Home in Athens on Friday". The Atlanta Constitution. September 14, 1918. p. 6. Retrieved September 11, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "University Housing, a Division of Student Affairs, The University of Georgia". The University of Georgia. Retrieved April 15, 2017.