Augusta Jane Chapin

Augusta Jane Chapin (July 16, 1836 – June 30, 1905) was an American Universalist minister, educator and activist for women's rights.

She was born in Lakeville, New York, the eldest of eleven children, to Almon Morris Chapin and Jane Pease.

She was one of only a few women's speakers at the Parliament of the World's Religions that took place at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.

[2][3] Not accepted in her previous years when she applied,[4] at age 50, Chapin was finally able to enroll at the University of Michigan, and was awarded a Master of Arts degree in June 1884.

[5] In 1893 Chapin was conferred an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree by Lombard University; the first ever awarded to a woman in America.