Eddy, Mary C. Whitman, 1809-1875

Mary Coolidge Whitman Eddy, a student, teacher and administrator at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, was born on August 4, 1809 in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. She worked as a teacher before entering Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1837. After graduating in 1839, she taught at Mount Holyoke and served as Associate Principal from 1842-1849. She became Principal of Mount Holyoke in 1849 after the death of the school's founder, Mary Lyon. Whitman resigned because of poor health in 1850 and married Morton Eddy in 1851. She died in Fall River, Massachusetts in 1875.

From the guide to the Mary C. Whitman Eddy Papers MS 0851., 1837-1875, (Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections)