Nora Stanton Barney | |
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Born | Nora Stanton Blatch 30 September 1883 Basingstoke, Hampshire, England |
Died | 18 January 1971 Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S. | (aged 87)
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Children | 2 |
Mother | Harriot Eaton Stanton |
Relatives | Elizabeth Cady Stanton (grandmother) Henry Brewster Stanton (grandfather) |
Nora Stanton Barney (née Blatch; 30 September 1883 – 18 January 1971) was an English-born American civil engineer, and suffragist. Barney was among the first women to graduate with an engineering degree in the United States. Given an ultimatum to either stay a wife or practice engineering she chose engineering. She was the granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.[1]