an Crow.
Speaking of the gifted sculptor, a correspondent says:

Harriet Hosmer was born in 1830. She studied sculpture in the
studio of Mr. Stephenson, in Boston, and also with her father. In
1830, after being denied admission to anatomical lectures in
Harvard and many other colleges at the East, she went to St.
Louis, where, through the spirited determination of Wayman Crow,
a most liberal benefactor of Washington University, she was
admitted to the Missouri Medical College through the kindness and
courtesy of Dr. Joseph N. McDowell, its founder and head. Here
for a whole winter she pursued her studies under the instruction
of Dr. McDowell and Dr. Louis T. Pim, the able demonstrator of
anatomy of the college, who gave her the benefit of their
constant and unremitting aid; also Dr. B. Gratz Moses and Dr. J.
B. Johnson were particularly kind in inviting her to be present
when important cases were before them. The names of these men are
gratefully mentioned, now that the doors of hundreds of colleges
have opened to women. While in St. Louis Miss Hosmer had a
constant companion and friend in Miss Jane Peck, a lady well
known in society circles, and together they daily attended at the
college; indeed, Miss Peck informed the writer, that on no
occasion did Miss Hosmer go to the college without her. So
quietly was this done, it was not until the month of February
that the students became aware of their attending, and when
informed of it the entire class, numbering about one hundred and
thirty, gave them a most cordial and hearty endorsement, and from
that time on until the day of graduation they were treated by the
young gentlemen with marked attention. The students were not
aware of their attending in the earlier part of the course,
because it had been the custom for the ladies to attend in the
amphitheater after the class had left to go to the various
hospitals. On one occasion while on their way to the college, a
number of the students being behind them, they heard the
gentlemen say to some men they met, "These ladies are under our
charge, and if you offer them an insult we will shoot you down."
They did not hear the language of the men, only the reply of the
students. At the close of the session the students gave a ball
and not only were Miss