Mary Lyon Collection ca. 1778-

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Mary Lyon Collection ca. 1778-

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Lyon, Mary, 1797-1849; Educator and founder of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College). Contains correspondence, published and unpublished writings, notes on Lyon's remarks, biographical material and memorabilia, books that were in Lyon's library, material relating to the Lyon family and to Ashfield, Buckland, and Byfield, Massachusetts, portraits and likeness of Lyon, and microfilm of her correspondence and writings. The collection documents aspects of her personal life, including her studies at Byfield Seminary and Sanderson Academy, as well as her work at Ipswich Female Seminary and particularly Mount Holyoke Female Seminary.

25 boxes, 94 volumes; (26.5 linear ft.)

Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections

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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...

Cowles, Eunice C. (Eunice Caldwell), 1811-1903

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Eunice Caldwell was born on February 4, 1811, in Ipswich, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Captain John Caldwell and Eunice Stanwood Caldwell. Her father, a sailor, drowned in the Kennebec River in 1835. She attended Ipswich Female Seminary from 1828 to 1829, where she met and began a lasting friendship with Mary Lyon, a teacher and an assistant to Zilpah P. Grant, the school's principal, from 1828 to 1839. She graduated from Ipswich in 1829 and was a teacher there from 1830-1835. She serv...

Wheaton Female Seminary (Norton, Mass.)

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Ipswich Female Seminary (Ipswich, Mass.)

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Sanderson Academy (Ashfield, Mass.)

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Sanderson Academy opened in 1816 under the direction of Reverend Alvan Sanderson in Ashfield, Massachusetts. Mary Lyon attended the school in 1817, and then became a teacher. She served as principal from 1827-1828. Interest in the school declined in 1832, but it reopened in 1879. The school was destroyed by fire in 1939. Later that year it was reopened in a new building. From the guide to the Sanderson Academy records MS 0582., 1817-1828., (Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special ...

Burgess, Abigail M. (Abigail Moore), 1813-1853

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Teacher and missionary. From the description of Papers, 1838-1849. (Lewis & Clark Library). WorldCat record id: 17734851 Abigail Moore was born on March 2, 1813 in New Marlboro, Massachusetts to Ariel Moore and Electa Lyon Moore, Mary Lyon's eldest sister. She graduated from Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1838 and taught there until 1846. She also served as associate principal in 1842-1846. In 1846, she married Reverand Ebenezer Burgess. In September of 1846, they left...

Mount Holyoke Female Seminary

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Mount Holyoke Female Seminary was chartered in 1836; it was reincorporated as Mount Holyoke Seminary and College in 1888 and as Mount Holyoke College in 1893. From the description of Catalogue, 1862. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007161 ...

Lyons family.

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Banister, Zilpah P. Grant (Zilpah Polly Grant), 1794-1874

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Zilpah P. Grant Banister was born on May 30, 1794 in Norfolk, Connecticut. In 1820 she enrolled in the Byfield Female Seminary in Masachusetts under Reverend Joseph Emerson. She then taught at various schools around Norfolk until she began organizing the Adams Female Academy in Londonderry, New Hampshire, which opened in 1824. Here she worked as principal with Mary Lyon as her assistant. In 1828 she received an invitation to organize a school in Ipswich, Massachusetts. She remained at Ipswich Fe...

Guilford, L. T. (Linda Thayer)

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Linda Thayer Guilford (1823-1911) was an educator and temperance advocate of Cleveland, Ohio. From the description of Papers, 1843-1910 / Linda Thayer Guilford. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 19732887 From the description of Linda Thayer Guilford papers, 1843-1910 [microform]. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 44502306 Lucinda Thayer Guilford was born on November 22, 1823. Her father was a shoemaker in Lanesboro, Massachusetts ...

Perkins, Justin, 1805-1869

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Congregational clergyman and missionary. From the description of Papers, 1829-1844. (Andover Newton Theological School). WorldCat record id: 47907374 Epithet: American missionary in Persia British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000149.0x0001b4 Perkins was head of the "Nestorian Mission" of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. From the description of Miscellaneous l...

Byfield Seminary

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