Ohio Female College Explained

The Ohio Female College was founded in 1852 in College Hill, Cincinnati by Reverend John Covert and operated until 1873.^{[1] [2]}

The site was used to build the Cincinnati Sanitarium, the first private US psychiatric facility not on the East Coast.^[3] The sanitarium was renamed Emerson A. North Hospital in 1956. When the hospital closed in 1994, the site was used by Phoenix International, a company that conducted clinical trials of drugs for the pharmaceutical industry. After Phoenix left in 2000, Cincinnati Children's Hospital College Hill Campus was established on the site.^[4]

Notable alumni

• Cornelia Laws St. John (died 1902), poet

References

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Notes and References

1. http://www.oll.state.oh.us/your_state/remarkable_ohio/marker_details.cfm?marker_id=11205 The Ohio Channel : Your State : Remarkable Ohio : Marker Details
2. Cincinnati: A Guide to the Queen City and Its Neighbors, The Wisen-Hart Press, 1943, p. 402.
3. http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=781 Ohio Female College, Ohio History Central, July 1, 2005.
4. Web site: A History of the Children's Hospital College Hill Campus.