Poems, [ca. 1838], Hartford, Conn.

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Poems, [ca. 1838], Hartford, Conn.

[1] "The lost darling," "To a mother on the death of her child," and "The dying child." [2] "The kingly oriole glancing went" and "Hymn sung at the wedding of J.C." ("Our bright and happy race is run"), Hartford, Conn., June 21, 1838.

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Sigourney, Lydia Howard, 1791-1865

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Lydia Huntley Sigourney (born September 1, 1791, Norwich, Connecticut–died June 10, 1865, Hartford, Connecticut), poet, also known as the “Sweet Singer of Hartford", was the only daughter of a gardener. She attended private school with the assistance of her father’s employer, and founded a Hartford school for girls in 1814. At this school, without any specialized training, Sigourney taught a deaf student, Alice Cogswell, to read and write in English. Cogswell would later be the first student enr...