Lang papers, ca. 1840s-1919.

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Lang papers, ca. 1840s-1919.

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The Malvina Stanton Lang papers consist of course records, account books, a commonplace book, writings, recollections, memorabilia, and biographical information. The material dates from 1840s-1919. Most items in the collection relate to her years as a student at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. Course records consist of three notebooks dating from 1848-1849 that contain essays and notes on Butler's "Analogy of Religion", botany, and Milton's "Paradise Lost". The account books contain a record of her expenses dating from 1845-1851. Recollections consist of a letter (1906) she wrote to Louise Frances Cowles, a former Mount Holyoke Female Seminary teacher, which describes Mary Lyon. The commonplace book dates from ca. 1849-ca. 1892 and contains poetry from authors such as John Greenleaf Whittier, Rudyard Kipling, and Oliver Wendell Holmes as well as newspaper clippings on "The Coverdale Bible". Writings consist of two poems by her probably from the 1840s. The memorabilia date from 1849-1905 and consist of her certification to teach English in New Hampshire, and her diploma from Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, as well as her induction into the Woman's Board of Missions. Biographical information, dated 1919, includes a biographical note and three obituaries.

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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 ...

Lang, Malvina Stanton, 1826-1919

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Malvina Stanton was born in 1826 in Dover, New Hampshire. She entered Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1846 and graduated in 1849. She taught in Manchester, New Hampshire and Allentown, Pennsylvania before marrying C.S. Gale in 1856. He died the following year. In 1859 she married the treasurer of the Boston Rubber Shoe Company, Thomas Lang, and they had a son. From the time of her second marriage to her death she resided in Malden, Massachusetts. She died August 11, 1919 at the age of ninety-th...