Avery, Susan

Mary Angelyn Champion Avery was born in Connecticut on November 15, 1861. Her father, John Avery, was a Congregational minister for several congregations in Connecticut. Mary attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, Massachusetts, during the early 1880s, and graduated in 1884. She later became a teacher.

From the guide to the Mary Avery correspondence, Avery, Mary correspondence, 1879-1881, (William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan)