Elizabeth Bragg

Elizabeth Bragg (1854 – 1929) was the first woman to receive a civil engineering degree from an American university.

Biography

Elizabeth Bragg received her degree in civil engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1876.[1][2][3][4] Bragg married George Cumming in 1888, a civil engineer with the Southern Pacific Railroad Company.[5] Elizabeth Bragg Cumming died on 10 November 1929, and is buried in California.[6]

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