Brown, Mary Ella, 1851-1946

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Mary Ella Spooner was born in Oakham, Massachusetts on October 14, 1851 to Andrew Spooner, Jr. and Mary Brown. As a child she attended Oakham public schools. She graduated from Mount Holyoke Seminary in July of 1872 and from the University of California at Berkeley in 1893. She married Julius Waverly Brown in 1894. She taught Latin and German at Mount Holyoke from 1872 until 1884, and at Oahu College, in Honolulu, Hawaii from 1884 until 1891. She had three foster children from Kentucky. She wrote a book of poems as well as an autobiography and many educational pamphlets. She died on January 21, 1946 in Springfield, Massachusetts.

From the guide to the Brown papers, the autobiography of a country girl : typescript, [ca. 1940] / by Mary Ella Brown. MS 0510., 1872-1946., (Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections)

Teacher. b. Mary Ella Spooner.

From the description of Fourscore plus : the autobiography of a country girl : typescript, [ca. 1940] / by Mary Ella Brown. (Lewis & Clark Library). WorldCat record id: 23347406

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