Louise Frances Cowles 1866
MA 1892 Smith College
student 1880-1881 Worcester School of Technology
student 1886 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
student 1894 Cornell Summer School
student 1895 Amherst Summer School
teacher (geology and mineralogy) 1867-1904 Mount Holyoke Seminary and College
acting president 1889-1890 Mount Holyoke College
emeritus professor 1904-1924 Mount Holyoke College
died 1924 in South Hadley
Cowles Lodge was named in her honor
Source
All information from One Hundred Year Biographical Directory of Mount Holyoke College 1837-1937, Bulletin Series 30, no. 5; published and compiled by the Alumnae Association of Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts