Hardy, Josephine Kingsley, d. 1871

Josephine M. Kingsley resided in Winchester, New Hampshire in 1853. She attended the "Northfield Seminary" in Northfield, Massachusetts in the spring of 1853 and entered Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in the fall of 1853. She left Mount Holyoke in 1855 and studied French and painting in Townshend, Vermont from March-June 1856. She returned to Mount Holyoke in the fall of 1856 and graduated on August 6, 1857. In the fall of 1857 she attended Temple Grove Ladies' Seminary in Saratoga Spring, New York where she studied French and painting for six weeks. She then studied French at Troy Female Seminary in Troy, New York. She married Silas Hardy in 1863 and died in Keene, New Hampshire in 1871.

From the guide to the Hardy papers MS 0778., 1851-1858., (Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections)