McLean, Sydney R. (Sydney Robertson), 1900-1973. Miss Lyon of Mount Holyoke. - View Resource

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McLean, Sydney R. (Sydney Robertson), 1900-1973. Miss Lyon of Mount Holyoke.

Title

Miss Lyon of Mount Holyoke. 193-?

Resource Link

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10280721

Abstract

Typescript (carbon copy) of six chapters of a biography of Mary Lyon covering her life through the early 1830's.

Extent

139 leaves ; 28 cm.

Holding Repository

Mount Holyoke College, Williston & Miles-Smith Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6670758

Mount Holyoke College, Williston & Miles-Smith Library

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Lyon, Mary, 1797-1849

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60686cb (person)

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...

McLean, Sydney R. (Sydney Robertson), 1900-1973

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d224n5 (person)

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