e supervisory architect of the
treasury department at Washington, two years, studied in the
special school of architecture in Paris one year, and is now,
1886, prosecuting her studies with a liberal selection of French
and English architectural works at her mountain home in Kentucky.
Mrs. Bessie White Heagen, the youngest daughter of Mrs. Sarah A.
White, was graduated with honor from the Roxbury High School of
Boston, and from the school of Pharmacy of Michigan University.
Being denied examination and the privileges of college graduates
of the college of pharmacy at Louisville, where she was employed
by a prominent pharmacist, she brought suit and obtained a
verdict in her favor.

Early in 1882, Dr. J. P. Barnum employed young women in his store
with the expectation of being able to educate them in the college
of pharmacy. But the hostility of the students to the proposed
innovation, and the lack of a systematic laboratory course,
caused the relinquishment of that plan and the formation of the
new school. Prominent gentlemen in the community assisted Dr.
Barnum, and the Louisville School of Pharmacy was duly
incorporated under the general laws of Kentucky.[531] Though
sustained by men of wealth and influence, the school met with
great opposition, the State Board of Pharmacy refusing to
register the women who were graduated from it until compelled to
do so by a mandamus from the Law and Equity Court, Judge Simral
presiding. March 7, 1884, the legislature incorporated the
Louisville School of Pharmacy for Women, and by special enactment
empowered its graduates to practice their profession without
registration or interference from the State board.

The school confers two degrees; its full course taking three
years and requiring more work than is done in other schools. So
far its graduates have been representative women, and all have
found responsible situations awaiting them. Its faculty remains,
with a few exceptions, as in the first session. Dr. J. P. Barnum,
to whose indefatigable efforts the foundation of the school is
due, is dean and professor of pharmacy and analytical chemistry;
Dr. T. Hunt Stuckey, a graduate of Heidelberg University, who
joined his efforts with Dr. Barnum at an early day, is professor
of _materia medica_, toxicol