Eddy, Mary C. Whitman, 1809-1875

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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)

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creatorOf Mary C. Whitman Eddy Papers MS 0851., 1837-1875 Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections
referencedIn Principals and Presidents Biographical Files RG 4. 2., ca. 1875- Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections
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associatedWith Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 person
associatedWith Eddy, Mary Coolidge Whitman, 1809-1875 person
associatedWith Fiske, Fidelia, 1816-1864 person
associatedWith Lyon, Mary, 1797-1949 person
associatedWith Mount Holyoke College corporateBody
associatedWith Mount Holyoke Female Seminary corporateBody
associatedWith National Board of Popular Education. corporateBody
associatedWith Porter, Hannah, 1797-1869 person
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Birth 1809

Death 1875

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