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Emma Hart Willard
Emma Willard ( Hart; February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was an American female education activist who dedicated her life to education. She worked in several schools and founded the first school for women's higher education in the United States, the Troy Female Seminary in Troy, New York. With the success of her school, Willard was able to travel across the country and abroad to promote education for women. The seminary was renamed the Emma Willard School in 1895 in her honor. Early life Emma Willard was born on February 23, 1787, in Berlin, Connecticut. She was the sixteenth of seventeen children from her father, Samuel Hart, and his second wife Lydia Hinsdale Hart."Person Detail Emma Hart Willard." Vermont Women's History Project. http://womenshistory.vermont.gov/?Tabld=61&personID=15. No longer online at this address; not found (yet) at Archive.org Her father was a farmer who encouraged his children to read and think for themselves. At a young age, Willard's father recogniz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin, Connecticut
Berlin ( ) is a town in the Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut, Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut, United States. The population was 20,175 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It was incorporated in 1785. The geographic center of Connecticut is located in the town. Berlin is residential and industrial, and is served by the Amtrak railroad station, station Berlin station (Connecticut), of the same name. Berlin also has two hamlets: Kensington, Connecticut, Kensington and East Berlin, Connecticut, East Berlin. It has major manufacturers such as “PMM (Plastic Molding Manufacturing), PYC manufacturing, and Budney Industries. Berlin has 1 high school 1 middle school and 3 elementary schools. Town seal The greatest boom to Berlin industry resulted from the decision of the Patterson brothers to start their business on West Street (now called Lower Lane). For twenty years until 1760, they kept their work in the family selling their wares from a basket. When demand incr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Troy Female Seminary
Emma Willard School, originally called Troy Female Seminary and often referred to simply as Emma, is an independent university-preparatory day and boarding school for young women located in Troy, New York. Located on Mount Ida, it offers grades 9–12 and postgraduate coursework. The first women's higher education institution in the United States, it was founded by women's rights advocate Emma Willard in 1814 (first in Middlebury, Vermont, as Middlebury Female Seminary, later moved to Troy and renamed Troy Female Seminary). As of 2022, it had an endowment of $179 million. In 2018, the school was ranked by ''The Post-Standard'' as the #1 private school in Upstate New York. Academics Emma Willard is an independent college-preparatory day and boarding school enrolling students in grades 9–12 and post-graduate studies. Class sizes are kept at a 16-student maximum; the typical student to teacher ratio is 6 to 1. 83% of the faculty hold advanced degrees. Advanced Placement class ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oakwood Cemetery (Troy, New York)
Oakwood Cemetery is a nonsectarian rural cemetery in northeastern Troy, New York, United States. It operates under the direction of the Troy Cemetery Association, a non-profit board of directors that deals strictly with the operation of the cemetery. It was established in 1848 in response to the growing rural cemetery movement in New England and went into service in 1850. The cemetery was designed by architect John C. Sidney and underwent its greatest development in the late 19th century under superintendent John Boetcher, who incorporated rare foliage and a clear landscape design strategy. Oakwood was the fourth rural cemetery opened in New York and its governing body was the first rural cemetery association created in the state. It features four man-made lakes, two residential structures, a chapel, a crematorium, 24 mausolea, and about 60,000 graves, and has about of roads. It is known both for its dense foliage and rolling lawns, and has historically been used as a public p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celia M
Celia may refer to: Film and television * ''Celia'' (1949 film), British comedy thriller * ''Celia'' (1989 film), Australian drama * ''Celia'' (Colombian TV series), a Spanish-language telenovela based on the life of Celia Cruz * ''Celia'' (Spanish TV series), a Spanish TV-series based on Elena Fortún's novels Literature * Celia (''As You Like It''), a character in Shakespeare's ''As You Like It'' *Celia, the title character in the novels by Elena Fortún, including: **'' Celia, lo que dice'' (1929) **'' Celia en el colegio'' (1932) **''Celia en el mundo'' (1934) Music Albums * ''Celia'' (album), an album by Tiwa Savage *''Celia'', tribute album by Angélique Kidjo 2019 * "Celia" (song), a 2011 single by Annah Mac Songs *"Celia", a jazz tune by Bud Powell on his 1950 album ''Jazz Giant'' *"Celia", a song by Phil Ochs on his 1964 album ''All the News That's Fit to Sing'' *"Celia", B-side of the 1974 single "Billy Don't Be a Hero" by Paper Lace *"Celia", a song by Camila Cabello ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decree Nisi
A decree nisi or rule nisi () is a court order that will come into force at a future date unless a particular condition is met. Unless the condition is met, the ruling becomes a decree absolute (rule absolute), and is binding. Typically, the condition is that an adversely affected party provide satisfactory evidence or argument that the decree should ''not'' take effect (i.e. the decree takes effect unless the party shows that it should not). For that reason, a decree nisi may also be called a rule, order or decree to show cause. Using the example of a divorce, the wording of such a decree is generally in the form of "that the marriage solemnized on (date) between AB and CD, be dissolved by reason of (grounds) UNLESS sufficient cause be shown to the court why this decree should not be made absolute within six weeks". This allows time for any party who objects to the divorce to come forward with those objections. When no objection is raised by either party, an automatic dissoluti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Willard Memorial
The Emma Hart Willard Memorial, is a public artwork designed by Marion Guild and Pierre Zwick. It was sculpted by T.A. Campbell who worked for the Houlihan Shop in Rutland, Vermont. Erected in 1941, the memorial is located in a triangular-shaped park at the intersection of route 30 and route 7 in downtown Middlebury, Vermont. Description The overall dimensions of this marble relief are tall, long, and wide. It rests on a white marble double base. The upper base measures tall, long, and wide. The lower base measures tall, long, and wide. The ''Emma Willard Memorial'' is a two sided slab of marble with straight sides and an arched top. One side is carved to depict educator and American women's rights advocate Emma Willard seated at a desk, and holding a pen as she writes. A globe, ink well, and books are depicted on the desk. The words "In memory of Emma Hart Willard Who Wrote at Middlebury in 1818 the Magna Carta for Higher Education of Women in America" are carved above ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Sage College
Russell Sage College (often Russell Sage or RSC) is a co-educational college with two campuses located in Albany and Troy, New York, approximately north of New York City in the Capital District. Russell Sage College offers both undergraduate and graduate degree and certificate programs. As of 2024, 2,790 students are enrolled, with 1,241 undergraduate students and 1,535 graduate students. History RSC was founded in 1916 by Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage, a suffragist, as a "school of practical arts." She named the college after her husband, Russell, who was an American financier, railroad executive and Congressman from New York. With Eliza Kellas, head of the Emma Willard School, Mrs. Sage was active in the women's suffrage movement; in founding the new college, they proposed to offer women the means of independence through the combination of broad education in the liberal arts with preparation for specific professional careers. Initially, the college operated under the ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Channing Woodbridge
William Channing Woodbridge (December 8, 1794November 9, 1845) was an American geographer, educational reformer, and the author of many geography textbooks. Early life and family Woodbridge's father, William Woodbridge, was a Yale University graduate, minister, and a major advocate for educational change in Connecticut. The senior Woodbridge wrote textbooks on grammar and spelling, and was the first preceptor of Phillips Exeter Academy. He worked with his son on some of the younger Woodbridge's projects. His mother was Ann Channing, the aunt of Bostonian Unitarian theologian William Ellery Channing. William Channing Woodbridge was born in Medford, Massachusetts. His family soon moved to Connecticut, where his parents taught him Latin, Greek, chemistry and mathematics. Throughout his life, he suffered from what was then called scrofula, which today would probably be diagnosed as tuberculosis. Career at Yale In June 1808, Woodbridge entered Yale as the youngest member of his f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abby Jane Morrell
Abby Jane Morrell (born February 17, 1809; date of death unknown) was an American writer who produced the first description of sub-Antarctic travel from a woman's perspective. Biography Morrell was born Abbey Jane Wood in New York on February 17, 1809. Her father, Captain John Wood, died on November 14, 1811, in New Orleans and had been master of the ship ''Indian Hunter.'' Her mother remarried in 1814 to a Mr. Burritt Keeler. On June 29, 1824, she married Captain Benjamin Morrell, who was a distant cousin, and became his second wife. They had a first son (born between 1825 and 1828) whom Morrell looked after in New York. However, in her own words, Morrell was determined to accompany her husband on his next voyage in 1829 and succeeded in persuading him after a week of crying. When she and her husband set sail, the son was left in New York with her mother. Voyage On September 2, 1829, they set sail on her husband's fourth voyage of commerce and exploration on the schooner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athens, Greece
Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is the southernmost capital on the European mainland. With its urban area's population numbering over 3.6 million, it is the List of urban areas in the European Union, eighth-largest urban area in the European Union (EU). The Municipality of Athens (also City of Athens), which constitutes a small administrative unit of the entire urban area, had a population of 643,452 (2021) within its official limits, and a land area of . Athens is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years, and its earliest human presence beginning somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennia BCE. According to Greek mythology the city was named after Athena, the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps
Almira Lincoln Phelps (; July 15, 1793 – July 15, 1884) was an American scientist, educator, author, and editor. Her botany writings influenced more early American women to be botanists, including Eunice Newton Foote and her daughter, Augusta Newton Foote Arnold. Though she primarily wrote regarding nature, she also was a writer of novels, essays, and memoir. Phelps was a native of Connecticut. Her long and active life was devoted to the education of young women. She published several popular science textbooks in the fields of botany, chemistry, and geology. Some of her works worthy of special commemoration include, ''The Blue Ribbon Society''; ''The School Girls Rebellion''; ''Christian Households''; ''Familiar Lectures on Botany''; ''Our Country and its Relation to the Present, Past and Future''; and ''The Fireside Friend''. Her views on topics ranging from elocution to corsets are contained in ''Lectures to Young Ladies, Comprising Outlines and Applications of the Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
