17 Facts About Wilhelmine Key

Wilhelmine "Minnie" Marie Enteman Key was an American geneticist.

Wilhelmine Key was the first woman to gain a PhD in zoology from the University of Chicago, where she studied coloration in paper wasps.

Wilhelmine Key contributed to the study of eugenics and was an influential teacher to Sewall Wright.

Wilhelmine Key was the fourth child of Katherine E Noller and Charles John Enteman.

Wilhelmine Key obtained her AB from the University of Wisconsin.

Wilhelmine Key attended the University of Chicago supported by a fellowship.

Wilhelmine Key was the first woman to earn a PhD in zoology from the University of Chicago.

Wilhelmine Key then attended the University of Chicago and earned her PhD in zoology in 1901.

Wilhelmine Key briefly remained at the University of Chicago as an assistant until 1902.

Wilhelmine Key then became a professor of German and biology at Lombard college from 1909 to 1912 where she mentoredSewall Wright.

From 1912 to 1914, Wilhelmine Key worked as a eugenics field worker at the Eugenics Record Office.

Wilhelmine Key completed her seminal work "Feeble-minded Citizens in Pennsylvania," which was used to recommend appropriation from the Pennsylvania state legislature to isolate feeble-minded women from the population to prevent the spread of feeble-mindedness.

Wilhelmine Key spoke at the Battle Creek Garden Club on the importance of trees.

Shortly after their marriage, Wilhelmine Key's husband died of tuberculosis on December 2,1906.

Wilhelmine Key died of a cerebral hemorrhage on January 31,1955, while on a visit to see family in Everett, Washington.

Wilhelmine Key is buried in Village of Hartland Cemetery in Hartland, Wisconsin.

Wilhelmine Key bequeathed the majority of her estate to fund a lecture series for human genetics at the American Genetic Association which bears her name.