Papers, 1827-1982 (inclusive).

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...

Foster, Abby Kelley, 1811-1887

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Abby Kelley Foster (January 15, 1811 – January 14, 1887) was an American abolitionist and radical social reformer active from the 1830s to 1870s. She became a fundraiser, lecturer and committee organizer for the influential American Anti-Slavery Society, where she worked closely with William Lloyd Garrison and other radicals. She married fellow abolitionist and lecturer Stephen Symonds Foster, and they both worked for equal rights for women and for Africans enslaved in the Americas. Foster wa...

Foster family.

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Maria Chickering was born in Amherst, N.H., in 1803, and attended Adams Female Academy in Derry, N.H., where Mary Lyon, the future founder of Mt. Holyoke College, was a teacher. Chickering married her cousin, Asa Emerson Foster (brother-in-law of Abby Kelley Foster, abolitionist and women's rights advocate), had a daughter, Sarah Maria, and died in Erie, Pa., in 1859. From the description of Papers, 1827-1982 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007715 ...

Adams Female Academy (Derry, N.H.)

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Adams Female Academy. From the description of Catalog, 1827. (American Antiquarian Society). WorldCat record id: 210239360 ...

Palmer, Foster McCrum.

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