Catherine Mulgrave
Catherine Elisabeth Mulgrave also Gewe (19 November 1827 ─ 14 January 1891) was an Angolan-born Jamaican Moravian pioneer educator, administrator and missionary who accompanied a group of 24 Caribbean mission recruits from Jamaica and Antigua and arrived in the Danish Protectorate of Christiansborg, now Osu, Accra in Ghana in 1843. Mulgrave was a leading figure in pedagogy and the education programme for girls in both Jamaica and on the Gold Coast. She was the Basel Mission’s first female teacher active on the Gold Coast. Under the auspices of the society, she played a pioneering role in the Christian women ministry of the Protestant movement in colonial Ghana. Catherine Mulgrave was also one of the first African woman teachers in the missionary educationalist system in Africa.
Catherine Gross Duncan
Catherine Gross was born on April 4, 1908 in the town of Manilla, Indiana. In 1931, she received her A.B. Degree in botany from the Depauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. She went on to earn her M.S. and her P.h.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1933 and 1935 respectively. During her graduate career, she specialized in plant cytology and agricultural bacteriology under the supervision of Charles E. Allen and W.D. Frost. A fellow student, Robert E. Duncan was also studying in Allen’s lab. She was married to Robert E. Duncan and had a daughter, Dana Duncan. Both she and Robert worked at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.