Lucy Webb Hayes

This etching of First Lady Lucy Webb Hayes was done for "Harper's Weekly" from a photograph by James Landy, a photographer professionally known as J. Landy. 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.