Early Life and Education
Born in Huntington, Indiana to John M. Smith, a Quaker dairyman, banker, and politician, and Sopha Strock Smith, Mrs. Friedman was the youngest of nine children.
After briefly attending The College of Wooster in Ohio, she graduated from Hillsdale College in Michigan with a major in English literature and was also a member of Pi Beta Phi. Having exhibited her interest in languages, she had also studied Latin, Greek, and German, and minored "in a great many other things." Only she and one other sibling were privileged to attend college.
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