Belle van Dorn Harbert

Belle van Dorn Harbert (February 29, 1860 – after 1940) was an American educator and the president of the International Congress of Farm Women.

Personal life Belle van Dorn was born to William van Dorn and Mary Jane Miller in Des Moines, Iowa, where she was educated in public schools. In March 1882, she married Isaac Frazier, who died three months later. He was found dead in his barn with a gunshot wound to the head; it was undetermined it was a suicide or accident.

In 1898, she married John Harbert in Denver.

Career Educator and education Harbert began teaching in Des Moines, Iowa when she was 15 years of age and by 22 she was a principal. Harbert graduated from the University of Denver in 1902. Through her education at both universities, she received Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees. She was decorated with the cross of the Order of Agriculture of Belgium in 1914. She planned for a group of model American farm houses at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. The effort is funded by donations from farm women and others.