The following is a draft of a student essay. It may contain errors. Washington College of Law by Sonya Driver (1) Ellen Spencer Mussey and Emma Gillett began teaching a law course for three women. (2) In the late nineteenth century, women were not generally admitted to law schools in the United States. (3) In 1895, Delia Sheldon Jackson asked Ellen Mussey to train her in the law. (4) Mussey asked Emma Gillett to join with her to make legal education available to women in the area. (5) Over the course of two years, Mussey and Gillett gave lectures for women who were interested, and the number of their students steadily grew. (6) Significantly, Mussey was the first attorney for the American Red Cross. (7) Ellen Spencer Mussey had moved to Washington, D.C., to work at a business college. (8) She married a lawyer, and she learned the law from her husband. (9) When her husband had health problems, she began running his law office, which she did for sixteen years. (10) After her husband's death, Mussey passed the District of Columbia bar exam and became a practicing attorney in 1893. (11) One of the things that made Emma Gillett interested in law was wage discrimination between men and women. (12) As a teacher, Gillett realized that she made much less than her male counterparts. (13) Gillett moved to Washington, D.C., where she gained admittance to Howard University, which was founded to for African Americans and did not discriminate against women. (14) Gillett earned a master's degree in law and passed the District of Columbia bar exam. (15) Gillet had worked in the law office of Watson Newton, and he eventually formed a legal practice with her. (16) In 1898, when the first group of Mussey and Gillett's students were approaching their final year, Mussey and Gillett tried to get them admitted to a recognized law school, but the school remained firm in denying admission to women. (17) This refusal led Mussey and Gillett to found the Washington College of Law (WCL), which would admit both women