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Abby Lillian Marlatt

American educator
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Abby Lillian Marlatt (born March 7, 1869, Manhattan, Kansas, U.S.—died June 23, 1943, Madison, Wis.) was an American educator who brought a strong academic base to the university programs in home economics that she established. Marlatt graduated from Manhattan’s Kansas State Agricultural College (now Kansas State University of Agriculture and Applied Science) in 1888 and remained there as a teacher while studying chemistry (M.S., 1890). Invited to organize a department of domestic economy at Utah...

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