Sprague papers ca. 1871-1923 1893-1923

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Sprague papers ca. 1871-1923 1893-1923

Sprague, Viette Isabel Brown, 1846-1923; missionary. Mount Holyoke Female Seminary graduate, 1871. Papers consist of correspondence, writings, biographical information and photographs primarily documenting her work as a missionary in China during the Boxer Rebellion and the political rights of Chinese women with special emphasis on foot binding.

1 box; (2.5 linear in.)

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Sprague, Viette Brown, 1846-1923

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Missionary. Born February 12, 1846 in Newark, Wayne County, New York, the third of Hiram Leicester Brown and Hester Ann Bonker's ten children. She attended public school in Newark and then in Shortsville, New York. After graduating from Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1871, she taught school in Red Creek, New York; Muncie, Pennsylvania; and Emory, Ohio. In 1893 she went to China and married Reverend William P. Sprague in Tientsin. The Spragues then went to Kalgan in northern China to work at a ...

Edwards, Anna C. (Anna Cheney), 1835-1930

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Professor, 1859-1892, and Associate Principal, 1872-1888, at Mount Holyoke College. From the description of Papers, 1859-1930. (Lewis & Clark Library). WorldCat record id: 23087131 Anna Cheney Edwards was born on July 31, 1835, in Northampton, Massachusetts. She graduated from Mount Holyoke Seminary in 1859 and taught there until 1863. In 1863 she became principal of the Lake Erie Seminary in Plainsville, Ohio. She returned to Mount Holyoke in 1868 as a member of the fac...

Mount Holyoke Female Seminary - Students.

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