Papers, 1858-1936 1864.

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Papers, 1858-1936 1864.

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The Mary Augusta Ibbetson Papers consist primarily of a typed transcript (prepared by her granddaughter Eleanore Ibbetson Wiedmann) of a diary covering the years 1858-1861 and 1863-1865. The volumes reflects her activities as a young girl in Illinois, where she attended Greenwood Academy in Chesterfield, and as a student at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. The diary includes information about her housework; social activities; religious life; studies in algebra, botany, Latin, rhetoric and other subjects; the health of family members and friends; thoughts about young men and marriage, and Civil War news. She also discusses Mount Holyoke faculty members, pariticularly Fidelia Fiske and Catharine Hopkins; school regulations; and events such as lectures by visiting missionaries and Mountain Day in 1864. In addition to the diary, her papers include a 1926 letter expressing regret at her inability to attend a Mount Holyoke reunion and information about her death in 1936.

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Mount Holyoke College, Williston & Miles-Smith Library

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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 ...

Ibbetson, Mary Augusta, 1845-1936

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Non-graduating member of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary class of 1867; wife and mother. Born Mary Augusta Monroe. From the description of Papers, 1858-1936 1864. (Lewis & Clark Library). WorldCat record id: 39751716 ...

Wiedmann, Eleanore Ibberson, 1923-

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Monroe family.

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Fiske, Fidelia, 1816-1864

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Fidelia Fiske was born on May 1, 1816 in Shelburne, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Rufus Fiske and Hannah Woodward Fiske. Fiske was educated in Shelburne district schools and spent one term at Franklin Academy. She taught in Shelburne's district schools before entering Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1839. Her education was interrupted in 1840-1841 while she recovered from typhoid fever. She returned in the fall of 1841 and graduated in 1842. After teaching for a year at the Seminary, s...

Hopkins, Catharine, 1835-1865.

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Greenwood Academy (Chesterfield, Ill.)

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