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Information: The first column shows data points from Ferguson, A. P. (Abbie Park), 1837-1919 in red. The third column shows data points from Ferguson, M. M., 1837- in blue. Any data they share in common is displayed as purple boxes in the middle "Shared" column.

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Ferguson, A. P. (Abbie Park), 1837-1919

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Abbie Park Ferguson was born in Providence RI in 1837. She attended public schools in Whately, Masschusetts and learned from her father, Rev. John Ferguson, who was a congreational minister. Ferguson graduated from Mount Holyoke Seminary in 1856. After teaching public school in Connecticut, in 1869 she went to Paris to teach and travel with two American girls. She and the girls were caught between the French and German armies in Geneva during the Franco-Prussian War and were forced to stay in Switzerland for a few months. In 1871, Ferguson returned to Connecticut and worked in city missions. At the invitation of Rev. Andrew Murray, she and Anna Bliss, class of 1862, sailed to Cape Town, South Africa in the fall of 1873, and in 1874, they founded the Huguenot Seminary in Wellington, Cape Colony, South Africa. Huguenot Seminary was the first institution of higher learning for women in the country, and it was modeled after Mount Holyoke Seminary in many ways; it was "a first class Ladies' Training College" that offered education at a moderate price. Ferguson's brother, Rev. George Ferguson lived with her in Wellington from 1877 to 1896. When not teaching, Ferguson traveled a great deal, visiting Scotland, England, Switzerland, Holland, Egypt, Palestine, the United States and the East coast of Africa. With Freguson as president, Huguenot Seminary became a college in 1898, and it began awarding bachelor of arts degrees to students. Ferguson received an honorary M.A. and Litt. D. from Mount Holyoke College. After retiring in 1910, she worked with alumnae and formed a Women's Interdenominational Missionary Committee for South African churches. Ferguson died at Heguenot in 1919.

From the guide to the Ferguson Papers MS 0687., 1861-1919., (Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections)

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Ferguson, A. P. (Abbie Park), 1837-1919

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Papers 1879-1933 1882-1889.

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Spafford, Mary Otis Preston, 1857-1933. Papers 1879-1933 1882-1889.

Title: Papers 1879-1933 1882-1889.

The papers of Mary Otis Preston Spafford consist of correspondence, biographical information, memorabilia, and a photograph of her. Of particular note are letters by her in which she describes her work as "boy's attendant" at the Clarke School for Deaf Mutes in Northampton, Mass., 1880, and her experiences as a teacher at Huguenot Seminary in Wellington, South Africa, 1882-1889. These letters discuss her trip to and from South Africa via London, her many duties at the Seminary, her involvement with temperance work and the local Chautauqua Circle, visits to missionaries (chiefly Mount Holyoke alumnae), and her travels throughout the country. She also makes several references to her relationship with William Swain Spafford, a member of the British Army, whom she married in 1890.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes 10 linear in.

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Ferguson, A. P. (Abbie Park), 1837-1919

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Spafford papers 1879-1933 1882-1889

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Spafford papers MS 0717., 1879-1933, 1882-1889

Title: Spafford papers 1879-1933 1882-1889

Spafford, Mary Otis Preston, 1857-1929; Teacher and missionary. Mount Holyoke Female Seminary graduate, 1879. Papers contain correspondence, biographical information, memorabilia, and a photograph. Primarily documenting her experience as a teacher at the Huguenot Seminary, South Africa.

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Ferguson, A. P. (Abbie Park), 1837-1919

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Ferguson Papers MS 0687., 1861-1919.

Title: Ferguson Papers 1861-1919.

Ferguson, Abbie Park, 1837-1919; Teacher and missionary. Mount Holyoke Female Seminary graduate, 1856. Papers consist of correspondence, devotional book, clippings, biographical information, and photographs. Primarily documenting the founding of the Huguenot Seminary, South Africa, its history and her activities there. Also contains a correspondence by Anna Bliss, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary graduate, 1862.

ArchivalResource: 1 box; (2.5 linear in.)

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Ferguson, M. M., 1837-

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Dictation from M.M. Ferguson : Bozeman, Gallatin County, [ca. 1884-1885].

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Ferguson, M. M., 1837-. Dictation from M.M. Ferguson : Bozeman, Gallatin County, [ca. 1884-1885].

Title: Dictation from M.M. Ferguson : Bozeman, Gallatin County, [ca. 1884-1885].

Part of a collection of dictations about social life and customs in Montana.

ArchivalResource: Originals : 1 folder.Copies : partial microfilm reel : negative (Rich. 113:15) and positive.

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Ferguson, A. P. (Abbie Park), 1837-1919

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Spafford, Mary Otis Preston, 1857-1933

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Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 1832-1918.

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Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 1832-1918.
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