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Hannah Ring Vedder helped to found the Wisconsin Industrial School for Girls in 1875. Sometime after that, she was elected to its school committee. Vedder had been active in soldiers relief work as well as education. Hannah Ring was born in Utica, New York. She came with her family to Milwaukee in 1849 and later attended the Milwaukee Female College. She married Albert Henry Vedder in 1860. He died in 1869 and she never re-married.
