Hannah Jeanette Boyd was born on December 20, 1849, in Pennsylvania. She is one of the 6 founders of the sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma founded at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois, United States. Ms. Boyd entered Monmouth College in 1868. She was active in A.B.L. Literary Society; received an AB-AM from Monmouth College in 1872. She was the first Kappa career woman. She was a teacher in the East Ward School in Monmouth 1874-75 and taught for many years in the Omaha and Kansas public schools. She also taught school in South Carolina at the Brainerd Institute, a school for freed slaves. Her brother, Rev. Joseph Newton Boyd, married founder Mary Louise Bennett. Boyd had two nieces, Helen Boyd Whiteman and Katherine Boyd Graham. They both were initiated as alumnae by Alpha Deuteron in 1934 when Alpha Chapter was reinstated. The event was attended by her sister-in-law, Mary Louise Bennett Boyd. She was the oldest founder at the age of twenty. She was once described as the "balance wheel" of the group with "executive ability a keen and analytical mind.” and considered a major force in the early planning of Alpha. She was labeled as one of the four organizers in the sorority in late 1869. She is listed as “Alpha 2” and signed to the sorority charter in the Spring 1870. She was the first Alpha Scribe in 1870 and presided over the first Alpha business meeting, which made the badge orders in the Spring 1870. She was the first Grand Secretary of Kappa Kappa Gamma in 1871. She is credited with selecting the colors, blue and blue, and the statement: “How rich we are in daughters.” The reason behind why Kappa Kappa Gamma was founded was because Mary Louise Bennett, the main founder was dissatisfied with the fact that, while men enjoyed membership in fraternities, women had few equivalent organizations for companionship, support, and advancement, and were instead limited to literary societies. Bennett and Boyd decided to create a women's fraternity and sought members "not only for literary work but also for social development", beginning with their friend Mary Moore Stewart. Stewart, Boyd, and Bennett met in the Amateurs des Belles Lettres Hall, a literary society of which the women were active members, to plan their new society. They recruited three additional women, Anna Elizabeth Willits, Martha Louisa Stevenson, and Susan Burley Walker, to join in founding the fraternity. Sources Kappa Turns 150- Kappa Kappa Gamma https://www.kappaturns150.org/founders-bios