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Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, 1841-1924
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, a physicist and professor at Ohio State University, became president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1894. This miniature of him was painted in 1918 by his former Ohio State pupil Annie Ware Sabine Siebert. Wallace Siebert, the artist's brother, wrote of her talents: "You always seem to get the essence of a man, that which does not change with lapse of time." A remarkable woman of her era, Siebert became the first recipient of a master of arts degree from Ohio State in 1886 and one of the first women to earn an architecture degree from MIT.
Annie Ware Sabine Siebert, 1918 |