Phebe Temperance Sutliff
American educator; college president
About Phebe Temperance Sutliff
Lived 1859 – 1955 (aged 95–96). Phebe Temperance Sutliff was an American educator and university president.
Phebe Temperance Sutliff (1859–1955) was an American educator who served as president of Rockford College in Illinois. Her life was devoted to scholarship, particularly investigation of historical and economic problems.
Early life and education
Phebe Temperance Sutliff was born in Warren, Ohio, January 16, 1859. Her parents were Levi (1805–1864) and Phebe Lord (Marvin) Sutliff. She was a granddaughter of Samuel and Ruth (Granger) Sutliff and of Joseph and Temperance (Miller) Marvin, and a descendant of Reinold Marvin, who left England in 1635, and settled in Hartford, Connecticut. Western Reserve settlers were on both sides of her family.
In 1887–89, she was head of the department of history and English literature, Rockford Female Seminary, Illinois. resigning in 1901 and returning to Warren, Ohio,
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