Purington correspondence 1926-1927.

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Purington correspondence 1926-1927.

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Purington, Florence, 1862-1950; College administrator and teacher. Mount Holyoke Female Seminary graduate, 1886. Mount Holyoke College faculty member and administrator, 1887-1929. Papers consist of transcripts of letters to family members. Primarily documenting her travels to India, China and Japan and her observations of social conditions in each country and the work of missionaries.

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Florence Purington was born on August 12, 1862 in Burnt Hills, New York. She graduated from Mount Holyoke in 1886 and began her own private school in Waterford, Connecticut. In 1887 she became an Instructor of Mathematics at Mount Holyoke. She received a B.S. from Mount Holyoke in 1896. In 1902 she changed positions to become the appointment secretary. She was appointed Dean of the College in 1907, a position she held until 1929. She also became a member of the Board of Trustees in 1925. Florenc...