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Almira Hart was born on July 15, 1793, in Berlin, Connecticut.
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Almira Hart was born on July 15, 1793, in Berlin, Connecticut.
She studied mathematics and philosophy.
Phelps published several popular science textbooks in the fields of botany, chemistry, and geology. She was the youngest child in her family, growing up in an intellectual, independently thinking, and religious environment. At the age of 16, Almira Hart began her teaching career in district schools.
She later continued her own education.
In 1814, she opened her first boarding school for young women at her home in Berlin. And two years later, she became principal of a school in Sandy Hill, New New York
After her husband’s untimely death in 1823, she returned to the education world as Almira Hart Lincoln. She became a teacher and vice-principal at the well-known Troy Female Seminary in Troy, New New York
While teaching at the Female Seminary, her interests in science increased, and her botanical career began under the influence of Amos Eaton.
While under the direction of Eaton, she found her passion in botany and the lack of introductory text books for secondary and beginning college level students. This led Phelps to write and publish her first and most famous textbook in 1829, Familiar Lectures on Botany. She remarried in 1831 to John Phelps, a lawyer and politician from Vermont.
Taking the name Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, she once again gave up her career to raise a second family.
While raising her family, she continued to write new textbooks on chemistry, natural philosophy, and education. With each new publication and her continuing teaching lectures, Phelps’s fame grew, and she was asked to head many female seminaries.
In 1838, she accepted the challenge and moved to West Chester, Pennsylvania, to be head of the seminary there. She stayed at West Chester for one year, and then headed to Rahway, New Jersey, for two years.
Finally, Phelps ended in Ellicott"s Mills, Maryland in 1841, where she accepted a position as principal of the Patapsco Female Institute, a post she held for fifteen years before retiring in 1856.
The Institute offered academic courses in history, geography, literature, languages, mathematics, sciences, and the arts After gaining her membership, Phelps continued to write, lecture, and revise her textbooks until she died in Baltimore on her 91st birthday, July 15, 1884.
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In 1859, Phelps was the third woman elected as a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.