Nichols Papers 1837-1838.

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Nichols Papers 1837-1838.

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Nichols, Bethiah Avery Miller, 1815-1865; Student. Attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary 1837-1838. Papers contain a letter, lecture notes and a photograph. Primarily documenting her experience at Mount Holyoke and her interactions with Mary Lyon, including a visit she made to Heath, Massachusetts requesting funds for the Seminary. Housed in control files; two letters from John Kirkland Clark, grandson of Priscilla Maxwell, to Mary Woolley, regarding a letter written to his mother by Bethiah Miller Nichols.

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Lyon, Mary, 1797-1849

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Mary Lyon, educator and founder of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College), was born on February 28, 1797, in Buckland, Massachusetts. Her parents were Aaron Lyon, a farmer, and Jemima Shepard Lyon. After her father's death in 1802 and her mother's remarriage 1810, Lyon remained on the family farm as a housekeeper for her brother. She started teaching in 1814 and continued her own education by attending Sanderson Academy in Ashfield, Massachusetts, Amherst (Massachusetts) Acade...

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Maxwell, Priscilla.

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Nichols, Washington Adams Portraits.

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Nichols, Bethiah A. Miller, 1815-1865

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Bethiah Avery Miller was born in Heath, Mass. 14 Feb. 1815 to Rev. Moses Miller and Bethiah Ware. She came to Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1837 and remained at the school for one year. She is considered a non-graduating member of the Class of 1839. Bethiah married Reverend Washington Adams Nichols in 1838. She died in Lake Forest, Ill. in 1865. From the description of Nichols papers 1837-1838. (Lewis & Clark Library). WorldCat record id: 39153057 Bethiah Avery Miller...