1. Elizabeth Martha Farrand was an author and librarian.
18 Facts About Elizabeth Farrand
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Elizabeth Farrand wrote the second book-length history of the University of Michigan and the one that was most frequently cited thereafter, History of The University of Michigan, in 1885.
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Elizabeth Farrand attended the public schools in Ann Arbor, graduating from the Ann Arbor High School.
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Elizabeth Farrand's father died in October 1851 at the age of 38 just before she was born.
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Elizabeth Farrand was involved in many activities in Detroit, including serving as president of the early Board of Health, as surgeon for the Detroit Police Department, and as Surgeon in Chief of the Michigan Central Railroad.
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When D O Farrand died in 1883 University of Michigan president James B Angell presided over his Ann Arbor funeral.
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Elizabeth Farrand was replaced by former faculty member Andrew Ten Brook, who served from 1864 through 1877 when he resigned.
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Elizabeth Farrand resigned that position in 1851 during a controversy over secret fraternal societies on campus.
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Elizabeth Farrand returned to the university as librarian in 1866 and then resigned that position in 1877.
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Elizabeth Farrand generously acknowledged the influence of Ten Brook's work on the first page of his own.
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Elizabeth Farrand served as faculty chair of the University Library Committee for many years.
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Elizabeth Farrand had not been born when Ten Brook joined the faculty and would have been only nine years old when Adams did so.
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Elizabeth Farrand offers the most detailed and balanced account of this period, albeit from the standpoint that his accomplishments were many and his departure unfortunate.
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When Elizabeth Farrand joined the medical school as a student in it had no academic prerequisite requirement except a high school diploma but the medical degree program took two years, longer than at many other medical schools at the time.
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Elizabeth Farrand was dying that summer and had moved in with her uncle.
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Elizabeth Farrand had been diagnosed with breast cancer in 1898, treated for it twice during lengthy stays at Harper Hospital, and would die of it just two months later on August 17,1900.
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Elizabeth Farrand is buried in the Farrand family plot in Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Elizabeth Farrand joined the socially pioneering women who came to the University of Michigan Medical School in its first fifteen years of co-education.