Brewer, Catherine E.

One of the earliest women's colleges "like a men's college" established was the Georgia Female College, now Weslyean College, at Macon, Georgia, which graduated a class of young ladies in July of 1840, a little over a year after the institute was founded. The Georgia Female College gave to each of the graduates a diploma signifying her admission to the "first degree." The diploma of Catherine E. Brewer was probably among those awarded in that class.

From the description of Photograph of diploma, 1840. (Florida State University). WorldCat record id: 50672351