{"id":42680,"date":"2026-07-13T12:39:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=42680"},"modified":"2026-07-13T12:39:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:39:33","slug":"important-furman-university-figure-mary-camilla-judson-featured-in-greenville-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/important-furman-university-figure-mary-camilla-judson-featured-in-greenville-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Important Furman University figure Mary Camilla Judson featured in Greenville Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_42682\" style=\"width: 318px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42682\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42682 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2026\/07\/mary-camilla-judson-scaled-e1783959547964.jpg\" alt=\"A vintage 1800s photo of a white woman wearing period clothing. Mary Camilla Judson\" width=\"308\" height=\"400\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 308px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 308\/400;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-42682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Camilla Judson, lady principal, Greenville Woman&#8217;s College. Photo: Furman Special Collections and Archives.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mary Camilla Judson, sister of Charles Judson, a longtime professor at Furman University, is the subject of an article appearing in <a href=\"https:\/\/greenvillejournal.com\/news\/greenvilles-history-the-women-who-gave-the-city-its-voice\/\">Greenville Journal<\/a>. Mary Judson arrived in Greenville in the mid-19th century to become lady principal of Johnson Female University in Anderson, South Carolina. Beginning in the late 1850s, she taught subjects including art, French, English, botany, astronomy and more at Greenville Baptist Female College, which was led by her brother and was later named Greenville Woman&#8217;s College. In 1878, she was appointed lady principal of the Woman&#8217;s College and began her decadeslong career there (1878-1912) shaping the identity of the institution, and by extension, Furman University. The college merged with Furman in the late 1930s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Camilla Judson was a formative figure in the history of Furman University. A feminist who was denied entry to Yale, Judson was highly educated and ultimately helped shape Furman&#8217;s identity through her leadership at Greenville Woman&#8217;s College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":42684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,6,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greenville-journal","category-in-the-news","category-library"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42680"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42687,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42680\/revisions\/42687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}