Laura Drake Gill

Laura Drake Gill (August 24, 1860 – February 3, 1926) was an American educator. She was the third dean of Barnard College, serving in that role from 1901 to 1907, and president of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae.

Early life and education Gill was born in Chesterville, Maine, the daughter of Elisha Gill and Huldah H. Capen Gill. Her father died in 1873. She graduated in 1881 from Smith College with a degree in mathematics. She later earned a law degree from the Sewanee College. She was succeeded by Virginia Gildersleeve in 1911.

After Barnard, Gill became national president of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, and organized the Vocational Bureau for College Women in America. She was education chair of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. She worked for Sewanee College beginning in 1911, to develop plans for a Women's College of the South.

Publications

"Kindergarten and Industrial Training in Cuba" (1901) "Service of Organized Women to the Public School" (1909) "The Woman in Higher Education" (1914)

Personal life Gill died in 1926, in Berea, Kentucky, at the age of 65. Columbia University owns a portrait of Gill, painted by Julia Redding Kelly.