Mary Lyon

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Mary Lyon

Mary Lyon (born February 28, 1797 in Buckland , Massachusetts , † March 5, 1849 in South Hadley , Massachusetts) was an American educator and suffragette . She was the founder and first president of Mount Holyoke College Women's University .

Life

Mary Lyon was the daughter of Aaron Lyon, a farmer, and his wife Jemima Shepard. She was only five years old when her father died in an accident. She later lived with relatives in Buckland and went to school there. From 1814, Lyon gave lessons in rural schools to finance their education. You got 75 cents a week, their male counterparts, however 2 to 3 US dollars . Between 1817 and 1821 she attended the "Sanderson Academy" in Ashfield , the "Amherst Academy" and the "Joseph Emerson's Seminary" in Byfield , where she met the teacher Zilpah Grant (1794–1874) and the writer Catherine Esther Beecher (1806 –1878) friends. Her subjects were mathematics , computer science , Latin and history . She taught at the Sanderson Academy for three years before opening her own school in Buckland in 1824. In the following four years she worked with Zilpah Grant, first at the "Adams Female Seminary" in New Hampshire and later at the "Ipswich Female Seminary", where she worked from 1828 on. In the years she traveled from Boston to Detroit to raise money for a girls' college. On November 8, 1837, Mary Lyon opened the first college for women in South Hadley. It was called "Mount Holyoke Seminary and College" from 1888 and "Mount Holyoke College" from 1895 and served as a model for higher education for women in the USA. The success of Mount Holyoke opened the doors of colleges to women.

literature

  • Beth Bradford Gilchrist: The Life Of Mary Lyon. Houghton Mifflin, Boston and New York 1910.
  • Elizabeth Alden Green: Mary Lyon and Mount Holyoke: Opening the Gates Hanover. University Press of New England, New Hampshire 1979.
  • Doris Weatherford: American Women's History: An A to Z of People, Organizations, Issues, and Events. Patience Hall General Reference, New York, NY 1994.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mount Holyoke College Presidents ( Memento of the original from August 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mtholyoke.edu
personal data
SURNAME Lyon, Mary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American educator and women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Buckland , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1849
Place of death South Hadley , Massachusetts