Mary Ann Lipscomb

{{Short description|American educator (1848–1918)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Mary Ann Lipscomb | image = Mary Ann Lipscomb (1848–1918).png | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Mary Ann Rutherford | birth_date = {{Birth date|1848|12|23}} | birth_place = [[Athens, Georgia|Athens]], Georgia, US | death_date = {{Death date and age|1918|9|13|1848|12|23}} | death_place = Athens, Georgia, US | burial_place = | occupation = Educator | awards = | spouse = {{Marriage|Frank Adgate Lipscomb|1869|1874|end=d.}} | children = 3 | relatives = [[Mildred Lewis Rutherford]] (sister) | education = | signature = | party = }} '''Mary Ann Rutherford Lipscomb''' (1848–1918) was an American educator. She believed in childhood education, and she helped make primary education required for all children in [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]].<ref name="Georgia Women of Achievement">{{cite web|title=Lipscomb, Mary|url=http://www.georgiawomen.org/2010/10/lipscomb-mary/|work=Georgia Women of Achievement|accessdate=12 August 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130713102921/http://www.georgiawomen.org/2010/10/lipscomb-mary/|archivedate=13 July 2013}}</ref>

== Biography == Mary Ann Rutherford was born in [[Athens, Georgia]] on December 23, 1848.<ref name=Lewis>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yeWgvfDpwbwC&pg=PA463 |title=Lewis of Warner Hall |editor-first=Merrow Egerton |editor-last=Sorley |publisher=Genealogical Publishing Company |isbn=9780806308319 |page=463 |date=1979 |access-date=2025-09-11 |via=Google Books}}</ref> She married Frank Adgate Lipscomb in 1869, and they had three children.<ref name=TelegraphObit>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-macon-telegraph-deaths-and-funerals/180866009/ |title=Deaths and Funerals: Mrs. M. A. Lipscomb |newspaper=[[The Macon Daily Telegraph]] |place=Athens, Georgia |page=20 |date=1918-09-14 |publication-date=1918-09-15 |access-date=2025-09-11 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> He died in 1874.<ref name=Lewis/>

After she was widowed, Lipscomb went to work at the [[Lucy Cobb Institute]], under the direction of her sister, [[Mildred Lewis Rutherford]]; in 1895, Lipscomb took over leadership of that school.<ref name=TelegraphObit/><ref name="Case">{{cite book|last=Case|first=Sarah|editor=Ann Short Chirhart & Betty Wood|title=Georgia Women: Their Lives and Times|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VqU2PsmlYpMC&q=%22Mildred+Lewis+Rutherford%22&pg=PA272|year=2009|publisher=[[University of Georgia Press]]|location=Athens, Georgia|isbn=978-0-8203-3900-9|pages=272–296|chapter=Mildred Lewis Rutherford (1851–1928) The redefinition of New South White Womanhood}}</ref> Lipscomb founded the [[Tallulah Falls School]] in 1909.<ref name="TFS Website">{{cite web|title=TFS History|url=http://tallulahfalls.org/wd/TFS_history|publisher=Tallulah Falls School|accessdate=12 August 2013}}</ref>

She died at her home in Athens on September 13, 1918.<ref name=TelegraphObit/><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-atlanta-constitution-mary-rutherford/16810192/ |title=Mrs. Mary Ann Lipscomb Dies at Home in Athens on Friday |newspaper=[[The Atlanta Constitution]] |page=6 |date=1918-09-14 |access-date=2025-09-11 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

Both Lipscomb and Rutherford have student dormitories named after them at the [[University of Georgia]].<ref name="UGA Housing">{{cite web|title=University Housing, a Division of Student Affairs, The University of Georgia|url=https://housing.uga.edu/site/housing_undergraduate|publisher=The University of Georgia|accessdate=15 April 2017|archive-date=November 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125143340/https://housing.uga.edu/site/housing_undergraduate|url-status=dead}}</ref> Lipscomb was named a [[Georgia Woman of Achievement]] in 2010.<ref name="Georgia Women of Achievement"/>

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