Lucy Webb Hayes

This illustrated portrait of First Lady Lucy Webb Hayes was featured on a series of tobacco cards by the Consolidated Cigar Company around 1889-1893. Mrs. Hayes, the wife of President Rutherford B. Hayes, was the first first lady to graduate from college, earning her degree from Cincinnati Wesleyan Female College in 1850. She was an abolitionist and supporter of the temperance movement. Together, she and President Hayes raised five children.