Cora Agnes Benneson
American attorney (1851-1919) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 67
Cora Agnes Benneson was an American attorney, lecturer, and writer. She was one of the first women to practice law in New England.
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Benneson was raised in Quincy, Illinois, to parents involved in local politics, religious organizing, and philanthropy; her parents regularly invited prominent guests to their home, including the writers and philosophers Amos Bronson Alcott and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Benneson began her university studies in 1875 at the University of Michigan, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1878, a Bachelor of Laws in 1880, and a Master of Arts in 1883. After earning her master's degree, she was admitted to the bars of Illinois and Michigan.
