June 30, 1872

Louise Pound (June 30, 1872 to June 27, 1958), American academic situated in the philology depatment of University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was born in to a family of accomplishment: he father was a district court judge and state senator. Her brother Roscoe would became a prominent legal scholar. When  Louise Pound could not pursue a Ph.D in the United States, she studied for a doctor’s degree at the University of Heidelberg. She returned to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln to teach in the English department for the next forty-five years. Among her noteworthy accomplishments are work in the field of linguistics and folklore, and a role as the first woman president of the Modern Language Association.

And we recall Pound also for her cat, named Alexander, and a “supplementary cat, Beelzebub, [who] stayed in the barn." This is mentioned in Louise Pound: Scholar, Athlete, Feminist Pioneer by Robert Cochran (2009).