Fourscore plus : the autobiography of a country girl : typescript, [ca. 1940] / by Mary Ella Brown.

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Fourscore plus : the autobiography of a country girl : typescript, [ca. 1940] / by Mary Ella Brown.

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Describes activities and events during her youth in Oakham, Mass., including her father's Civil War service; education; work as a teacher at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary and the Punahou School; marriage to and life with Julius W. Brown, a teacher in New England and several southern states; their adoption of three children from the Shepherd family of Williamsburg, Ky.; travels in the United States; and financial difficulties late in life.

336 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.

Mount Holyoke College, Williston & Miles-Smith Library

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Mount Holyoke College, Williston & Miles-Smith Library

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Brown family.

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Punahou School

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Spooner family.

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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 ...

Brown, Julius W., 1851-1923

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Shephard family.

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Brown, Mary Ella, 1851-1946

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Mary Ella Spooner was born in Oakham, Massachusetts on October 14, 1851 to Andrew Spooner, Jr. and Mary Brown. As a child she attended Oakham public schools. She graduated from Mount Holyoke Seminary in July of 1872 and from the University of California at Berkeley in 1893. She married Julius Waverly Brown in 1894. She taught Latin and German at Mount Holyoke from 1872 until 1884, and at Oahu College, in Honolulu, Hawaii from 1884 until 1891. She had three foster children from Kentucky. She wrot...