Recollections of Mary Lyon. 1847-1909.

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Recollections of Mary Lyon. 1847-1909.

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Mss. reminiscences of early students at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, many of whom attended during Mary Lyon's tenure as Principal, 1837-1849. Chiefly dated 1886, when solicited for a history of the Seminary being prepared by Sarah D. Locke Stow, and 1906, when gathered for a memorabilia volume on Mary Lyon.

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Mount Holyoke College, Williston & Miles-Smith Library

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Mount Holyoke College, Williston & Miles-Smith Library

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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...

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 ...