Papers, 1838-1849.

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Papers, 1838-1849.

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Chiefly letters to relatives and friends, including Mary Lyon and Hannah Porter, relating to her work as a teacher at Mount Holyoke Seminary, 1845, and her activities as a missionary in Ahmadnagar, India, 1847-1849. Also includes a journal describing the voyage to India, 1846-1847; a volume of manuscript essays and poems written by Mount Holyoke students, apparently collected by and compiled for Burgess between 1838-1849; and biographical material.

30 items ; 25-28 cm.

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 ...

Porter, Hannah, 1797-1869

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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...

Moore family.

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Burgess, Ebenezer, 1805-1870

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