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Kylee Higgins

Foundress celebrated for feminism

Frontier explorer. Philanthropist. Businesswoman. University foundress. Lydia Moss Bradley was many things – and among them, a feminist. Ahead of her time in many ways,

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Sammantha Dellaria

Family ties

Zeally Moss (Father) Born to Nathaniel Moss and Nancy Ann Cockrell on March 6,1755, in Loudoun County, Virginia, Zeally Moss lived an adventurous life. In

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Campus through the decades

Lydia Moss Bradley chartered Bradley Polytechnic Institute (BPI) on Nov. 13, 1896. Lydia used 17.5 acres of land, $170,000 for buildings, equipment and a library

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11 quick Lydia tidbits

Before she was born, Lydia’s father Zeally Moss owned a plantation in Kentucky, but he eventually gave the territory rent free to the land’s workers

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