Nichols papers 1837-1838.

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Nichols papers 1837-1838.

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This collection includes a letter from Bethiah Miller Nichols to Pricilla Maxwell dated 16 Jan. 1837 recounting Mary Lyon's visit to Heath, during which she persuaded the residents to give $1,200 in support of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. The letter also discusses religion and the death of a mutual friend from consumption. The collection also includes two sets of lecture notes, one about the history of ancient Greece entitled "Abstracts from general history", the other "Items from Miss Lyon's lectures on education". There is a page of brief notes about Bethiah Miller Nichols, and one photograph of Reverend Washington Adams Nichols.

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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 College. History Dept.

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Maxwell, Priscilla, 1767-1851

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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 ...

Nichols, Bethiah A. Miller, 1815-1865

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Bethiah Avery Miller was born in Heath, Mass. 14 Feb. 1815 to Rev. Moses Miller and Bethiah Ware. She came to Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1837 and remained at the school for one year. She is considered a non-graduating member of the Class of 1839. Bethiah married Reverend Washington Adams Nichols in 1838. She died in Lake Forest, Ill. in 1865. From the description of Nichols papers 1837-1838. (Lewis & Clark Library). WorldCat record id: 39153057 Bethiah Avery Miller...

Nichols, Washington Adams

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