Mabel Smith Douglass

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Mabel Smith Douglass (1874 - 1933) was the founder and first dean of the New Jersey College for Women, in 1918. In 1933, having retired, she went boating in a canoe on Lake Placid, and never returned. Thirty years later, her perfectly preserved remains were found on a shelf 90 feet below the water's surface.

Today, Ms. Douglass' remains reside at Green-Wood Cemetery, located in Brooklyn, New York.

In 1955, the school was renamed Douglass College in her honor.

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