Abbie Park Ferguson

Abbie Park Ferguson (born April 4, 1837, Whately, Mass., U.S.—died March 25, 1919, Wellington, S.Af.) was an American educator, a founder and preserver of Huguenot College as the only women’s college in South Africa in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Ferguson was the daughter of a Congregational minister. She graduated from Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College) in South Hadley, Massachusetts, in 1856 and then taught school for 13 years, first...