First Women Admitted

1804

First Women Admitted

Painting of Barbara Blount by Mary Etta Grainger

1804

First Women Admitted

Five women—Jenny Armstrong, Barbara Blount (daughter of territorial Governor William Blount), Mattie Kain, Kitty Kain, and Polly McClung—were among Blount College’s admitted students in 1804, making it one of the first coeducational colleges in America. Women were not regularly admitted to the University of Tennessee until 1893.