Background
She was born on July 15, 1793 in Berlin, Connecticut, United States, the daughter of Capt. Samuel and Lydia (Hinsdale) Hart. On her father's side she was a descendant of Thomas Hooker, one of the original proprietors of Hartford.
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Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps
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Education
The education of her early years, under the care of unusually sympathetic and intellectual parents, was supplemented later in more formal fashion at the "select" school of her sister, Emma (Hart) Willard, at Middlebury, at Berlin Academy, and in 1812 at the Female Academy of Pittsfield, Massachussets. Later she acquired a knowledge of Latin, Greek, French, and Spanish, the sciences - including botany, chemistry, and geology - and mathematics.
Under the influence of Prof. Amos Eaton of the Rensselaer Institute, she perfected her knowledge of the sciences.
Career
Early giving proof of a brilliant mind, she entered the field of authorship with an essay, "On the Duties and Responsibilities of the Teacher, " which she read as a substitute when, a candidate for a teaching position. At the age of sixteen, she began teaching, first in a district school near Hartford, where she "boarded round, " then, in rapid succession, at Berlin and New Britain, Connecticut, and in an academy at Sandy Hill, New York, of which she was principal.
After the death of her first husband in 1823, she began educational work of importance in association with her sister at Troy Female Seminary, 1823-31, where she served as acting principal while her sister was in Europe.
Returning to teaching in 1838 after the death of her second husband, she became principal of the West Chester (Pennsylvania) Young Ladies' Seminary, later accepted a position at Rahway, New Jersey, and in 1841 began her service at Patapsco Female Institute, Ellicott City, Maryland, where she concluded active teaching in 1856. Removing to Baltimore, she devoted her energies to occasional writing and speaking till her death.
Her views on physical education were doubtless much influenced by her collaboration with her sister in the preparation of Progressive Education (1835), a translation of the first part of Madame Necker de Saussure's L'Education progressive. She also contributed articles on various phases of education to periodicals and newspapers. In 1838 she addressed the College of Professional Teachers on "Female Education, " in 1866 she spoke before the American Association for the Advancement of Science on the "Work of Edward Hitchcock, " and, later, on the "Infidel Tendencies of Modern Science. "
She died in Baltimore.
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Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps became the second woman member of American Association for the Advancement of Science, and was also long active in the Maryland Academy of Science. Her career as educator was noteworthy, for her popularization of the sciences as fit subjects for girls' education; for her championship of the movement for physical education; for her promotion of a school for girls; and finally, for her emphasis on training young women for teaching. During her lifetime efforts the content of girls' education changed from "polite" folderol to a substantial "mental discipline, " based on the sciences, mathematics, modern and ancient languages. Through her books and the institutions she served, she was an influential contributor to this change. In the Female Student; or Lectures to Young Ladies, her conception of formal discipline of the mind is best set forth. Her most famous series of textbooks, which became popular in the schools: Familiar Lectures on Botany; Dictionary of Chemistry; Botany for Beginners and others.
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Chemistry for Beginners
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Familiar Lectures on Natural Philosophy, for the Use of Schools
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Chemistry: For Schools, Families, and Private Students (Classic Reprint)
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Chemistry for Beginners
Connections
In 1817 she married to Simeon Lincoln, editor of the Connecticut Mirror (Hartford). To them were born three children. He died in 1823.
In 1831 she became the wife of Judge John Phelps of Vermont, who was a sympathetic and interested associate in her work as author and teacher till his death in 1849. To them were born a son, Charles E. Phelps, and a daughter.
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