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Late American History: Containing a Full Account of the Coverage, Conduct, and Success of John C. Fremont ...
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Late American History: Containing A Full Account Of The Coverage, Conduct, And Success Of John C. Fremont ; By Which, Through Many Hardships And Sufferings, He Became The Explorer And The Hero Of California
Emma Willard
Barnes, 1856
California; Mexican War, 1846-1848; United States
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Emma Hart Willard was an American women's rights activist who dedicated her life to education.
Background
Emma Hart Willard was born February 23, 1787 in Berlin, Connecticut, the ninth child of Capt. Samuel and Lydia (Hinsdale) Hart. Her father represented Berlin in the General Assembly and held other civil offices. Brought up in a large family in a rural community, she was trained to do her share of the household tasks. Because the best books available were read aloud at the Hart fireside, and politics, current events, and religious and moral principles were freely discussed, even as a child she took an interest in world affairs and learned to do her own thinking.
Education
She attended the district school and Berlin Academy.
Career
For several years she taught in Berlin but managed to alternate with this work several months of study at the schools of the Misses Patten and Mrs. Royse at Hartford. Her first teaching experience outside of her native town was at Westfield, Massachussets From there in 1807 she went to Middlebury, Vt. , to take full charge of the Female Academy, and was unusually successful. She gave up this position in 1809. She became familiar with the course of study at men's colleges and realized as never before the educational opportunities of which women were deprived. She studied his textbooks, first geometry, then Paley's Moral Philosophy and Locke's Essay Concerning Moral Understanding. When in 1814 her husband suffered financial reverses, she opened in her own home a school for young ladies, the Middlebury Female Seminary. At this time there were no high schools for girls, and no college in the world admitted women. Boarding schools, which only daughters of the well-to-do were able to attend, taught the mere rudiments and stressed the accomplishments, such as painting, embroidery, French, singing, playing on the harpsichord, and making wax or shell ornaments. Mrs. Willard proved to her entire satisfaction that young ladies were able to master such subjects as mathematics and philosophy and not lose their health, refinement, or charm.
In 1818 she sent to Gov. DeWitt Clinton of New York An Address to the Public; Particularly to the Members of the Legislature of New York, Proposing a Plan for Improving Female Education, published the following year. In this lengthy, well-thought-out document, she appealed for state aid in founding schools for girls, asked that women be given the same educational advantages as men, and showed of what benefit to the state well-educated women would be. She also outlined a course of study, ambitious for that period. As Governor Clinton and several legislators were sympathetic, her plan was presented to the legislature in 1819 and she went to Albany with her husband to plead personally for it. A few recognized the justice and wisdom of her recommendations, but the majority ridiculed and bitterly attacked what they considered interference with God's will for women.
Mrs. Willard then moved to Waterford, N. Y. , and established Waterford Academy, chartered by the New York legislature in 1819. She hoped for state aid, but no funds were appropriated. Just as she was in despair over the future of her school, the citizens of Troy, N. Y. , offered to provide a building for the Seminary. In 1821, sixteen years before Mary Lyon founded her seminary at Mount Holyoke, Emma Willard's Troy Female Seminary received its first pupils; and it grew in popularity and influence so that she was able to accomplish without state aid what a few years before seemed impossible. She steadily continued her policy of adding higher subjects to the curriculum, placing special emphasis on mathematics, which she felt women needed to train their minds. History, philosophy, and one science after another were introduced, and since she could not at first afford to employ professors to teach these subjects, she studied them and then taught them herself. She persuaded her pupils that they owed it to their country to become teachers for at least a few years. In this way she enabled many poor girls to be self-supporting and led many wealthy girls into a life of usefulness. Outstanding events in her school life were her trip to Europe in 1830, her friendship with Lafayette, her enthusiastic help in founding a training school for teachers in liberated Greece, in connection with which she wrote Advancement of Female Education; or A Series of Addresses, in Favor of Establishing at Athens, in Greece, a Female Seminary (1833). That same year she published, also, Journal and Letters, from France and Great Britain. In 1838 she retired from the active management of the Troy Female Seminary, leaving it in charge of her son and his wife. From 1838 on her interest was primarily in the improvement of the common schools. She worked with Henry Barnard in Connecticut, helping to make the schools there models for other states to follow. She traveled widely through the state of New York, holding teachers' institutes, and in a long tour through the South and West, by stage, canal boat, and packet, did much to arouse interest in education and to impress women with the part they must play in this great movement. Her plea was always for more women as teachers, for higher salaries, and better schoolhouses.
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Personality
She was regal in appearance - a beautiful woman with classic features, gowned always in rich black silk or satin with a white mull turban on her head. Kindly and understanding, she won her pupils' affection at once.
Connections
She became, on August 10, the third wife of John Willard, descendant of Simon Willard, and one of Middlebury's leading citizens, a physician and politician. Her only child, John Hart Willard, was born in 1810. Dr. Willard had died in 1825, and on September 17, 1838, she married Dr. Christopher Yates. The marriage was unhappy from the first, and she left him within a year. In 1843 she was divorced by act of the Connecticut legislature.