Labels:text | font | document | paper | black and white OCR: 1863 Born on December 11 in Dover, Delaware. Cannon receives her early education at local schools. She becomes interested in astronomy after stargazing with her mother, an amateur astronomer, from the attic of their house. 1884 Awarded her degree at Wellesley College. After graduation she returns home to Dover and helps to run the family household until her mother's death in 1894. She then returns to Wellesley College as a graduate student. 1890 Edward Pickering (1846-1919), the director of Harvard College Observatory, Harvard University, Massachusetts, and Wilhelmina Fleming (1857-1911), the curator of stellar photographs, establish a system for classifying stellar spectra. 1894 Cannon works in the physics department of Wellesley College, carrying out research into the uses of the recentl ...
