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Stowe, Hudson

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Hudson Stowe is the grandson of Emily Howard Jennings Stowe, the first female public-school principal in Ontario, the first Canadian woman to practise medicine openly and a pioneering leader in the woman-suffrage movement. She was born Emily Jennings in 1831 in Norwich Township, Upper Canada and educated at the Toronto Normal School where she graduated with honours at the end of the 1853-1854 school year. She was soon appointed principal of a Brantford public school where she taught until her marriage to John Stowe in 1856. Emily Stowe had two sons and one daughter, Dr. Augusta Stowe-Gillen, who followed in her mother's pioneering footsteps. She died in 1903. The name Howard in Emily Howard Jennings Stowe's full name refers to her mother's maiden name.

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