Vine Cynthia Colby (1852–1878) was an American physician and prominent figure among the early women in medicine.
Celestia's diaries, which detailed the family's progressive approach to education, were posthumously published in 2006 as Circumstances are Destiny: An Antebellum Woman's Struggle to Define Sphere, edited by Tina Stewart Brakebill.
[1] In June 1870, after graduating from high school in Freeport, Colby relocated to Ann Arbor, Michigan with her family.
[1] Colby married Sidney Foster, a fellow University of Michigan student, on December 19, 1873.
Upon her death in 1936, June Rose bequeathed $500 (equivalent to $7,788.13 in 2017)[5] to the University of Michigan League in Ann Arbor.