Marshall, Louise Henriette Foucar, 1864-1956

Louise Henriette Foucar was born in 1864, the daughter of a wealthy Boston family that had emigrated from Germany. Louise studied in France, Italy and Switzerland but her health was poor and she searched for a place with a better climate to live. After stints in El Paso, Texas and Mexico City, in 1890 she moved to Denver, Colorado and earned two degrees at the University of Denver. While in Denver, she developed tuberculosis and heart problems and in 1898 she moved again, this time to the warmer climate and lower elevation of Tucson.

She came to the University of Arizona as a graduate student in the academic year of 1898-1899; she became an instructor the next year and in 1900, at the age of 36, she became the school's first woman professor. She taught Botany and a host of languages, including English, French, Latin and Spanish, and in 1901 she was named head of the Department of Ancient and Modern Languages.

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