Mary Lathrop Benton (1864–1955) was a Syrian-born American professor of Latin and French at Smith College.

For two and half years, she also studied in the French Normal Schools of Nîmes, Blois, and Angoulême, 1895–97.

While a student in the French Normal Schools of Nîmes, Blois, and Angoulême, she also taught there, from December 1894 to June 1897.

[1] In March 1919, Benton went to Kaunas, Lithuania on YWCA work with Laura de Turczynowicz (the two first women of the Allies to cross Germany after the armistice).

[1] She resided in Syria, Massachusetts, and Minnesota, before relocating to California in 1923, living in San Francisco[4] and in Palo Alto.