Abbie Park Ferguson’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro American-South African educator
Was Teacher 
Educator 
From United States of America 
South Africa 
Type Academia 
Gender female
Birth 4 April 1837, Whately, USA
Death 25 March 1919, Paarl, South Africa
(aged 82 years)
Star sign Aries
Education
Mount Holyoke College

Abbie Park Ferguson (April 4, 1837, Whately, Massachusetts – March 25, 1919) was founder and president of Huguenot College.

She graduated from Mount Holyoke College (then Mount Holyoke Female Seminary) in 1856. She taught in Niles, Michigan until 1858 and later in New Haven, Connecticut from 1867 until 1873.

In 1873 Ferguson and another Mount Holyoke graduate (1862), Anna Bliss, moved to Cape Town, South Africa and established the first women’s college in the region, Huguenot College in 1898. Abbie Park Ferguson was president of Huguenot College (which eventually became Huguenot University College) until her retirement in 1910.

She took a leave to return to the United States from 1905 to 1906 during which time she received an M.A. from Mount Holyoke. In 1912, Mount Holyoke honored her with a Doctor of Letters.

She died at Huguenot on March 25, 1919, aged 82.

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