July 22, 1887 - ??
Josephine Burns was the second woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Illinois. Born in Greenville, Illinois, she received her A.B. in 1909 and her Master's degree in mathematics in 1911, both from the University of Illinois. She spent a year at the University of Wisconsin, then returned to Illinois to complete her Ph.D. in 1913 with a thesis on "The abstract definitions of groups of degree 8," written under the direction of G. A. Miller. Her thesis was published in the American Journal of Mathematics, vol 37, no. 2 (April 1915) [Abstract]. She married Robert D. Glasgow and later became the State Entomologist for the state of New York.