Papers, 1838-1907 1844-1864.

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Papers, 1838-1907 1844-1864.

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These Papers consist of journals, correspondence, notebooks, compositions, biographical information, a diploma, and a photograph. Most of this material relates to her years as a student at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, 1844-1846, including a letter she wrote on March 22, 1844, and journals, 1844-1845. In these documents Holden discusses her course work, schedule, roommates, religious life, the school's interest in the financial support of missionaries, the daily walking requirement, a Mountain Day trip in 1845, Mary Lyon, her room, and caring for ill students. Three compositions (1845-1846) concern the story of Pocahontas, the life and death of one of Holden's friends, and the power of memory and remembrance. The notebooks contain calisthenic exercises, lists of plants that were probably collected for a botany class, and several original poems and songs written by Mount Holyoke students, ca. 1840-1846, that are examples of what has come to be known as Seminary Literature. The notebook of these writings also includes poems and songs dating 1838-ca. 1843 and written by students in the "High school" in Medway, Mass. that Holden attended before coming to Mount Holyoke. This collection also includes twelve letters dated 1847-1866. One letter was written by Holden to her mother, the others were written to Holden by her family and friends, including a Mount Holyoke classmate, Mary Susan Rice. These letters chiefly discuss news of family and friends, child care, death, national events, and religion. Of particular note is an Aug. 1866 letter from Rice, in which she describes her work as a teacher and missionary at the Fiske Seminary in Orumiyeh, Persia. Other items in the collection consist of Holden's Mount Holyoke diploma, 1846; a biographical note, ca. 1907; and a formal photograph, ca. 1860.

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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 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 ...

Seminary Building (South Hadley, Mass. : Town)

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Rice, Mary Susan, 1821-1905

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Fiske Seminary (Orumiyeh, Iran)

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Holden, Sarah Packard, 1827-1907

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Sarah Daniels Packard was born on October 29, 1827 to Congregational minister Levi Packard and Clarissa Sanford Packard in Spencer, Massachusetts. She attended school in Medway, Massachusetts before entering Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1844. After graduating in 1846, she returned to Spencer to teach. She married hardware store owner James Cotton Holden in 1850 and lived in New York City. They had three children and in 1861 moved to Madison, New Jersey. She died in Madison on January 13, 190...

Packard family.

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