Hale Papers 1830-1837

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Hale Papers 1830-1837

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Hale, Harriet Johnson, d. 1865; student and teacher. Ipswich Female Seminary graduate, 1837. Papers contain a notebook of penmmanship examples and letters to family members concerning primarily her schedule, studies, and activities as a student at Ipswich with frequent references to Zilpah P. Grant Banister, Mary Lyon, and to her own ideas about women's education.

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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...

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...

Hale, Harriet Johnson, d. 1865

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Ipswich Female Seminary (Ipswich, Mass.)

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Hale, Harriet Johnson

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Harriet Johnson was born in Newbury, Vermont. Her father was David Johnson, a merchant. She began attending Ipswich Female Seminary in 1833 and graduated in 1837. For a time in 1834-1835 she also worked as a teacher in Byfield, Massachusetts. She married Isaac Hale of Providence, Rhode Island and had eight children before she died in 1865. From the guide to the Hale Papers MS 0560., 1830-1837, (Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections) ...