Athenaeum

Members met at the Library with Janice McKay as hostess. Marilyn Harder gave the program about Dr. Nettie J. Craig Asberry, one of the women considered a “Notable Washington Women”, the theme for this year’s study.

Dr. Asberry was born in 1865 in Kansas. Her mother was a slave and her father a white land owner. She was the first African American to receive a bachelors degree from an American college. Kansas had no restrictions on race or gender at this time. She received a Ph.D. and was an accomplished pianist.

Dr. Asberry was married to Albert Jones in 1889 and they migrated to Seattle. She b...