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About Mary Norris Dickinson
Mary Norris Dickinson was an early American land and estate owner and manager. She is known for her ownership of one of the largest libraries in the American colonies, her participation in political thought of the time, and her presence in or near events of the Constitutional Convention, including her marriage to Framer John Dickinson, one of the early drafters of the Constitution and one of its signers on behalf of the colony of Delaware. They bequeathed much of their combined library to the first college founded in the new United States. The college was originally named "John and Mary's College", by Benjamin Rush, for Norris Dickinson and her husband and is now called Dickinson College.
Everything about Mary Norris Dickinson →- Occupation
- large estate owner
- Citizenship
- United States, Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- July 17, 1740
- Died
- July 23, 1803