Kilgore, Carrie (1838-1909)

US teacher and lawyer. In Philadelphia, she introduced gymnastics into the schools, promoted women's rights, and worked for women's suffrage. Initially denied admission to the bar, she was admitted to the University of Pennsylvania law school and became its first woman graduate in 1883. In 1908 rode in the first balloon flight of the Philadelphia Aeronautical Recreation Society.

She was born in Craftsbury, Vermont. She taught in Vermont and Wisconsin, then studied medicine in New York and Boston 1863-65. She read law under Damon Kilgore (whom she married in 1876).