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  • Source: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12294241/charles-francis-cocke
    Charles Francis Cocke (1886 - 1971)
    Charles Francis Cocke Cocke was president of the American Bankers Association, was born in Roanoke and was the son of Lucian Howard Cocke, a former mayor of Roanoke and lawyer for the Norfolk...
  • Lucian Howard Cocke, Sr. (1858 - 1927)
    Lucian Howard Cocke Cocke was an American lawyer, politician, historian and university rector from Virginia. Life Cocke was born on March 27, 1858, at Hollins College in Roanoke, Virginia...
  • Martha 'Matty' Louisa Cocke (1855 - 1938)
    Martha Louisa Cocke She was president of Hollins College (now Hollins University), was born in Roanoke County and was the daughter of Charles Lewis Cocke and Susanna Virginia Pleasants Cocke....
  • Dr. Charles Lewis Cocke (1820 - 1901)
    Charles Lewis Cocke Cocke was the founder, president and business manager of Hollins Institute (later Hollins College, now Hollins University) in Roanoke, Virginia. Presidential Tenure: 1846-1901 ...
  • Elizabeth Crabtree (1937 - 2009)
    Elizabeth Crabtree (Baldwin) Elizabeth Crabtree Obituary CRABTREE Elizabeth Baldwin Crabtree, 71, passed away on September 19, 2009. She was born October 28, 1937 in New York City. She is the d...

Wikipedia

Hollins University is a four-year private institution of higher education located on a 475-acre (1.92 km2) campus on the border of Roanoke and Botetourt counties in the U.S. state of Virginia. Founded in 1842 as Valley Union Seminary in the historical settlement of Botetourt Springs, it is one of the oldest institutions of higher education for women in the United States.

Hollins has since evolved into a full university with approximately 800 enrolled undergraduate and graduate students. As Virginia's first chartered women's college, all undergraduate programs are female-only. Men are admitted to the graduate-level programs.

Hollins is known for its undergraduate and graduate writing programs, which have produced Pulitzer Prize–winning authors Annie Dillard, current U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey, and Henry S. Taylor. Other prominent alumnae include pioneering sportswriter Mary Garber, 2006 Man Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai, UC-Berkeley's first tenured female physicist (and a principal contributor to theories for detecting the Higgs boson) Mary K. Gaillard, Goodnight Moon author Margaret Wise Brown, Lee Smith, photographer Sally Mann, and Ellen Malcolm, founder of EMILY's List.

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