Clarke, Annie Barber

Annie Barber Clarke was born June 9, 1861, the daughter of Reverend Henry Barber and Elizabeth Pratt in Deerfield, Mass. She was a member of the first graduating class of Radcliffe (1883) and received her AM from Columbia University (1891).

Following graduation, ABC and her classmate, Abbie Parsons, taught at the Parsons school in Greenfield, Mass. (later the MacDuffie school). She then joined the staff at Miss Anne Brown’s school, on Fifth Avenue, New York City. From 1896 to 1901 she was secretary to Professor Warren in Harvard's Oriental Languages Department.

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