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Women Educators Adams to Lord
Jane Kelley Adams 1852 ~
Was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, October 13, 1852. She has
always been active in the educational work of her city and
state. Was one of the founders of the Woburn Home for Aged
Women, president of many clubs and societies, and chairman of
the Equal Suffrage League. Was president of the school board and
is active among the various societies of college women in the
cities near Boston.
Sarah Louise Arnold
1859 ~ 1942
Born in Abington, Massachusetts, February 15, 1859. Daughter of
Jonathan and Abigail Noyes Arnold. Taught in the public schools
of Massachusetts, New York and Minneapolis. Dean of Simmons
College since 1902. Author of books for teachers, "Stepping
Stones to Literature," "Reading: How to Teach It,"
"Waymarks for Teachers."
Catherine Esther Beecher
1800 ~ 1878
Author and educator. Was born in Easthampton, Long Island,
September 6, 1800 and died in Elmira, New York, May 12, 1878.
She was the oldest child of Lyman B. and Roxanna Foote Beecher.
Her early education was received from her mother and a devoted
aunt. When but nine years of age her parents removed to
Litchfield, Conn. She early began to write and was a frequent
contributor to the Christian Spectator under the initials C. D.
D. Some of her poems interested one of the young professors of
mathematics In Yale College, whom she later married. Her life
was greatly saddened by his death. He perished in a storm off
the Irish coast. She opened, with her sister, a select school in
Hartford, Conn. Soon it became a question for the proper housing
of the many students which applied for admission and her friends
of Hartford assisted her in the purchase of the land and the
erection of the buildings for the Hartford Female Seminary. Miss
Beecher became its principal and they opened with a corps of
eight assistant teachers. One of her writings "Suggestions on
Education" attracted attention and brought additional interest
in the Hartford Seminary. She wrote an arithmetic which she used
as one of her own text-books; also a text-book, 'The Mental
Philosopher." Later when her health broke down, she and her
sister removed to Cincinnati and opened a school. Her later
years she devoted to authorship and has written quite a good
many books on domestic economy and other subjects, which are
used as text-books in schools.
Elizabeth Powell Bond
1841 ~ 1926
Mrs. Bond was born in Clinton, New York, January 25, 1841. Is
dean of Swarthmore College. Daughter of Townsend and Catherine
Macy Powell. Her mother was a descendant of the "Goodman Macy"
of whom Whittier writes. In 1660, he was driven from his home on
the mainland to the Island of Nantucket. Mr. and Mrs. Powell
made their home at Ghent, New York, and here Elizabeth spent her
youth. She commenced her work as a teacher when but fifteen
years of age in a Friends' school in Dutchess County. She taught
in the different schools of the neighborhood, and at one time
had a school in the home of her parents. She was connected with
the abolition movement and the work done by the anti-slavery
leaders. She taught gymnastics in Boston, and was in 1865
appointed instructor of gymnastics in Vassar College. About
1866, Miss Powell married Henry H. Bond, a lawyer of
Northampton, and with him edited the Northampton Journal. After
her husband's death in 1881, she returned to Florence,
Massachusetts, and devoted herself to the education of her son,
gathering about her a class of children. Later she accepted the
position of matron in Swarthmore College, and in 1891, that of
dean of this well-known school. She has written tracts on social
purity, and has lectured quite extensively.
Nina Eliza Browne 1860
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Born at Erving; Massachusetts, October 6, 1860. Daughter of
Charles Theodore and Nancy Smith Brown. Assistant librarian of
the Columbia University Library, New York, also the State
Library; librarian of the Library Bureau, Boston, in 1893;
assistant secretary, then secretary, of the publishing board of
the American Library Association, and the Massachusetts Free
Public Library Commission. Is a compiler and bibliographer of
Hawthorne; editor of the catalogue of graduates and
non-graduates of Smith College.
Clara Bradley Burdett
1855 ~
College woman and active worker in women's club organizations,
and federations, and in philanthropic work. First president of
the California Federation of Women's Clubs, and first
vice-president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. Was
the builder and donor of the Pasadena Maternity Hospital,
trustee of the Polytechnic Institute of Pasadena, California,
vice-president of the finance committee of the Auditorium
Company, Los Angeles; member of the Social Science Society,
Archaeological Institute of America, and National Geographic
Society. Lectures on educational and social questions. She was
born in Bloomfield, New York, July 22, 1855. Daughter of Albert
H. and Laura C. Bradley. Married N. Milman Wheeler Burdett in
1878.
Ella Lyman Cabot 1866 ~
1934
Born in Boston. Daughter of Arthur Theodore and Ella Lowell
Lyman. Graduated from Harvard College in 1904, and took a
special course in logic and metaphysics. Married in 1894 to
Richard Clark Cabot Teacher of ethics in private schools and
member of the State Board of Education, many reform
associations, council of Radcliffe College, Massachusetts
Society Civic League and German Educational Department of the
Boston Woman's Municipal League. Has written books entitled "Every-Day
Ethics," 'Teachers' Manual of Ethical Training,"
and other educational works.
Luella Clay Carson 1888
~ 1909
Miss Carson was born in Portland, Oregon, March 12, 1856. Is the
daughter of John Crosthwaite and Elizabeth Talbot Carson.
Graduated from one of the private schools of Portland, receiving
a state diploma in 1888 and a life diploma in 1890. Studied in
Boston at one of the schools of expression of that city; Harvard
College; University of Chicago; University of California, and
Cambridge, England. Was preceptress of the Taulatin Academy and
Pacific University; vice-president of the Couch School,
Portland, Oregon; professor of rhetoric and elocution, English
literature, American literature, and dean of women of the
University of Oregon; president of Mills College, California
since 1909. Is the author of "Public School Libraries,"
and "A Reference Library for Teachers of English,' "Handbook
of English Composition," and is one of the conspicuous
educators of the country.
Eleanor Colgan
Enjoys the distinction of having had conferred upon her by the
Pope, for her excellent work among the Italian children of this
country, the order of Knighthood of the Church and the Papacy,
and is the first woman in America entitled to wear the gold
cross of the order. She is an instructor in the Brooklyn
Training School for Teachers.
Katherine Coman 1857 ~
1915
Born at Newark, Ohio. November 23, 1857. Daughter of Levi P. and
Martha Seymour Coman. Was professor of economics since 1900 at
Wellesley College; author of "The Growth of the English
Nation." "History of England," "History of
England for Beginners" "Industrial History of the
United States" and other books.
Mary Bernardine Corr
Was born October 3, 1858 in Dubuque, Iowa. Is a teacher in the
Boston Grammar and Normal Schools, and is a contributor to the
Sacred Heart Review and Donahoe's Magazine.
Mary Isabel Cramsie
1844 ~
Was born in Friendsville, Pennsylvania, May 5, 1844. President
for ten years of the Sacred Thirst Total Abstinence Society.
Superintendent of the Catholic division, Newsboys' Sunday School
for some years; secretary of the Diocesan Union for many years,
and organized one of the first total abstinence societies for
boys and girls under twenty years of age. Is the author of poems
and has written for the Catholic World, the Northwestern
Chronicle and local newspapers.
Sarah Platt Decker 1922
~ 1908
President of the Woman's College of Denver and ex-president of
the General Federation of Woman's Clubs. One of the most
important women in the country.
Mary Lowe
Dickinson 1839 ~ 1914
Katherine Elizabeth Dopp
1863 ~ 1944
Born at Belmont, Wisconsin, March 1, 1863. Daughter of William
Daniel and Janet Moyes Dopp. Student of the schools of Wisconsin
and of the University of Chicago. Principal and teacher in
several of the normal schools of Wisconsin and Illinois.
Principal of the Training Department of the State Normal School,
Madison, South Dakota, in 1896, and of the training department
of the Normal School of the University of Utah in 1898.
Instructor in Correspondence Study Department of Philosophy
since 1902; lecturer in Educational Extension Division since
1894 of the University of Chicago. Has written several
educational works, industrial and social histories, The Tree
Dwellers," "The Early Cave Men," and "The
Later Cave Men," articles and reviews in educational and
sociology journals.
Mary Hickey Dowd 1866 ~
Was born at Manchester, New Hampshire, January 22, 1866.
Daughter of John and Mary Joy Hickey, and in 1889 married Dr.
John F. Dowd. Taught in the public schools of Massachusetts and
New Hampshire. Delivered lectures on her travels in England.
Associate editor of the Guidon for years, and author of "Life
of Rt Rev. Denis Bradley." Contributor to the various
Catholic journals.
Mother Katherine Drexel 1858 ~ 1955
Daughter of Francis A. Drexel of the well-known Philadelphia
family. She early became interested in the welfare of the
Indians and Negroes, and through Bishop O'Connor of Omaha she
was lead to the founding of the community for these people and
became its first superioress. She was for a while with the
Sisters of Mercy in Pittsburgh, but gave her entire fortune to
the new order which she had founded. The first novitiate of this
order was located temporarily at the Drexel homestead at
Torresdale, Pennsylvania, and she established also a boarding
school and home for colored children at St. Elizabeth's,
Cornwells, in 1892, and a boarding school for Pueblo Indians in
Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1894; an industrial boarding school for
colored girls at Rock Castle, Virginia, in 1899; a boarding
school for Navajo Indians in Arizona, in 1903, and an academy
for the higher education of colored girls in Nashville,
Tennessee, in 1905, with a preparatory annex school in 1906, and
a day school for colored children at Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The
order which Mrs. Drexel established is known as the Sisters of
the Blessed Sacrament, of which she is at present superioress.
Sister Mary Julia (Elizabeth Ann
Dullea) 1866 ~
Was born April 8, 1886, in Boltonville, Wisconsin. Her father
and mother were natives of Ireland. Sister Julia has spent her
life in teaching in Catholic schools. Is a writer of prose and
poetry. She is an accomplished musician and linguist. Is very
active in work for children, especially in the advancement of
their physical, mental, and spiritual interests.
Mary
Frances Farnham 1895 ~ 1943
Florence Amanda Fensham
1861 ~ 1912
Bora in East Douglass, Massachusetts, May 35, 1861. Daughter of
Hon. John and Sarah Alice Fensham. Student of the Chicago
Theological Seminary, Mansfield College, and at Oxford and
Cambridge, England and Edinburgh. Teacher in the American
College for Girls in Coustan, Turkey, in 1893. Was professor of
Biblical literature and dean until 1905, and instructor in
Christian Instruction of the Chicago Theological Seminary in
Chicago from 1906 to 1909 and dean of the training school for
women in Chicago since October, 1909.
Virginia C. Gildersleeve
1877 ~ 1965
Virginia C. Gildersleeve was born in New York City, October 5,
1877, and prepared for college at the Briarly School, and
graduated from Barnard College in 1899. In 1900 she received the
degree of A.M. from Columbia University, and that of Ph.D. in
1908. During the years from 1900 to 1907, and from 1908 to 1910,
she was instructor in the department of English, Barnard
College, Columbia University. In 1910 she was promoted to the
rank of assistant professor of English, and in 1911 made dean of
the College. Virginia C. Gildersleeve is the author of ''Government
Regulations of the Elizabethan Drama" and has contributed
articles to several of the leading magazines.
Mother Irene (Lucy M. T. Gill)
1858 ~
Was born in Galway, Ireland, March, 1858. Her father, Joshua
Paul Gill, was secretary of the Galway branch of the Bank of
Ireland, and came to this country in 1864. In 1876 Miss Gill
entered the Ursuline Convent and was later transferred to the
Convent of St. Teresa, New York City, where for twelve years she
was teacher and principal of the parish school. From this school
many of the teachers in the public schools in New York City have
graduated. In 1893 she was made superior of the community and
established the Normal School at Teresa's Academy.
Eliza
Maria Gillespie 1824 ~ 1887
Helena Theresa Francesca
Goessmann
Daughter of Charles. Anthony Goessmann, the well-known
scientist. Was born at Syracuse, New York. Received degrees from
the Ohio University. Was the organizer and first president of
the Woman's Auxiliary Catholic Summer School, Cliff Haven, New
York. Head of the department of history, Notre Dame College,
Baltimore, from 1897 to 1899; head of the department of Catholic
higher education, New York, from 1904 to 1907. Has lectured in
the United School of New Orleans and the Summer Catholic
Schools, and lectured before non-sectarian organizations on
education and culture in New England. She has written a number
of songs and books on philanthropic Christianity. Contributor to
the press and magazines of the United States, but is known
principally through her lectures. After her father's death, she
was elected professor of English in the State College of
Massachusetts, at Amherst
Ellen Hayes 1851 ~ 1930
Bora in Granville, Ohio. September 23, 1851. Daughter of Charles
C and Ruth Wolcott Hayes. Was lecturer and writer on astronomy
and other subjects; professor of mathematics, applied
mathematics and astronomy since 1904 of Wellesley College.
Author of "Elementary Trigonometry,' "Algebra." "Calculus with
Applications,' etc.
Caroline
Hazard 1856 ~ 1945
Rev. Mother Mary Agnes Hines
Was born in Avon, New York. Is of French and German ancestry. In
1869 she entered the Order of the Sisters of St. Joseph, in
Rochester, New York, being received into the order in 1871. She
is a woman of most remarkable character, notable business
ability, and a great talent for art. She was made assistant
superior in 1882. Through her active efforts the Nazareth
Convent and Mother House, and the academy were gradually
enlarged; a Nazareth Normal School the community's house of
studies, was erected.
The Nazareth Hall and Preparatory School for boys under twelve
years of age, the St. Agnes Conservatory of Music and Art, the
Home for the Aged, and St Joseph's Hospital in Elmira, all owe
their existence to Mother Agnes' untiring efforts and interest
in the cause of education. The schools of this sisterhood are
under the regents of the University of New York, and many of
their teachers have had their course of instruction in the art
centers of Europe.
Amy Morris Homans 1848
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Born at Vassalboro, November 15, 1848. Daughter of Harrison and
Sarah Bliss Bradley Homans. Prominent educator. Principal of the
Hemenway School and McRae and Chadbourn private school; in
charge of the educational work founded by the late Mrs. Mary
Hemenway from 1877 to 1909. Organized and directed the Boston
Normal School of Household Arts, Boston School of Gymnastics;
director of Hygiene and Physical Education in Wellesley College
since 1909.
Matilda Theresa Karnes
Was born in Rochester, New York. Daughter of James Kames of
Middleton, England, and his wife, Ellen Brady, a native of
Ireland. She taught industrial drawing and later astronomy,
algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and is head teacher of the
mathematical department in the high schools of Buffalo, New
York. For many years Miss Kames' classes in English composition
have won the medals offered by the Sons of the Revolution for
original essays on Revolutionary subjects. Miss Kames is the
first vice-president of the Buffalo Women's Civil Service Reform
Association, a subject to which she has given much study. Also
on the committee of the Buffalo Humane Society. Is president of
the Catholic Women's Saturday Afternoon Club a literary,
musical, and social organization of the Catholic women of
Buffalo.
Lucy Ann Kidd 1839 ~
1916
Mrs. Lucy Ann Kidd was born June 11, 1839, in Nelson County,
Kentucky. Her father, Willis Strather Thornton, was a descendant
of an old English family and one of the early residents of
Virginia. She was at one time president of the North Texas
Female College, in Sherman, Texas, being the first woman in the
South to hold such a position.
Mary Elizabeth Litchfield
1854
Born at Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, May 9, 1854. Daughter of
Lawrence and Sarah Minot Litchfield. Author of 'The Nine
Worlds; Stories from Norse Mythology."
Sarah F. Coles Little
1838 ~
Was born March 6, 1838, in Oberlin, Ohio. Daughter of Professor
Henry Coles of Oberlin Theological Seminary. Her mother, Alice
Welsh, a woman of superior character and education, was for
several years principal of the ladies' department of Oberlin
College. Her education was obtained in Oberlin, from which
college she graduated in 1859, with the degree of B.A. After
graduating she taught school for several years. In 1861 she was
principal teacher in the Wisconsin School for the Blind at
Janesville, Wisconsin, of which Thomas H. Little was
superintendent. In 1862 Mr. Little and Miss Coles were married.
On the death of her husband in February, 1875, Mrs. Little was
chosen by the board of trustees as his successor. At this time
no other woman in the United States was in charge of so
important an institution as the Wisconsin School for the Blind,
and during her superintendency it was one of the best managed
institutions of the country, and Mrs. Little is recognized as a
leading educational authority in this particular line of work.
Mrs. Little was a zealous Christian and thorough Bible student.
One of her daughters was a missionary, and on the opening of the
Oberlin Home for Missionary Children in 1892, Mrs. Little
assumed charge. In this school the children of missionaries are
educated.
Eleanor Louise Lord
Miss Lord, dean (1907) of the Goucher College, a girls'
educational institution of Baltimore, Maryland, is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clay Lord, of Maiden, Massachusetts. She
is a graduate of Smith College, and was at one time a teacher
there. She pursued a course of study at Cambridge University,
England, and was the holder of a scholarship given by the Boston
Women's Educational and Industrial Union in 1894. She received
in 1898, at Bryn Mawr College, the Ph.D. degree. Miss Lord was
for four years a professor at the Goucher College. She is a
member of the American Historical Association and the author of
several valuable historical works. As a college educator,
trained especially in the needs and essentials which aid the
modern education of the girl. Miss Lord has had an experience
which admirably fits her for the position which she now holds.
Elizabeth W. Russell Lord
1819 ~
Was born in Kirtland, Ohio, April 28, 1819. Her parents were
natives of Massachusetts and prominent among the early settlers
of the Western Reserve. She was a student of Oberlin College,
and in 1842 became the wife of Asa D. Lord, M.D. In 1847 Dr.
Lord removed to Columbus, Ohio, and established the first graded
school in that state, and Mrs. Lord was the first principal of
the first high school, to be opened in Ohio. Dr. Lord later
assumed charge of the Institution for the Blind, a work in which
he was greatly interested. In 1868 he was induced to go to New
York State to organize the State Institution for the Blind. Mrs.
Lord aided her husband in all this work, and met with great
success in teaching the adult blind to read. It is believed she
has taught more blind persons to read than any other teacher in
the country, probably in the world. On the death of Dr. Lord in
1875, Mrs. Lord was unanimously made superintendent of the
institution which Dr. Lord had so successfully organized. Later
Mrs. Lord became assistant principal of the women's department
of Oberlin College, which position she has held for some years.
She has given liberally from her means for all charitable and
educational institutions. Her best gift was that in 1890 of
$10,000 to Oberlin College, to build, with the aid of other
friends, the "Lord Cottage" for the accommodation of young
women. Mrs. Lord may be regarded as one of the noble women of
America.
Mary Lyon 1797 ~ 1849
Women
Educators Martin to Young
Women of
America
Source: The Part Taken by Women in
American History, By Mrs. John A. Logan, Published by The Perry-Nalle
Publishing Company, Wilmington, Delaware, 1912.
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