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Marcia Bronson Kingsbury
Other Name:
Marcia Bronson
Gender:
Female
Born:
December 17, 1764
Died:
March 21, 1813
Home Town:
Waterbury, CT
Marriage(s):
John Kingsbury (1761-1844) (November 6, 1794)
Biographical Notes:
Marcia Bronson Kingsbury was born December 17, 1764 in Waterbury, Connecticut to Stephen and Sarah Humiston Bronson. As a young woman Marcia attended the Litchfield Female Academy, although her dates of attendance are unknown. After her studies in Litchfield she married John Kingsbury, a judge from Waterbury, Connecticut who had been a student at the Litchfield Law School. During their marriage Marcia and John had four children. Marcia passed away on March 21, 1813.
Education
Years at LFA:
Unknown
Immediate Family (Why only immediate family?)
- Sarah Kingsbury Brown
Daughter
LFA (1823) - Charles Denison Kingsbury
Son - Julius Jesse Bronson Kingsbury
Son - John Southmayd Kingsbury
Son
LLS (1809) - John Kingsbury (1761-1844)
Husband
LLS (1788) - Stephen Bronson
Father - Sarah Humiston Bronson
Mother
The Citation of Attendance provides primary source documentation of the student’s attendance at the Litchfield Female Academy and/or the Litchfield Law School. If a citation is absent, the student is thought to have attended but currently lacks primary source confirmation. Records for the schools were sporadic, especially in the formative years of both institutions. If instructors kept comprehensive records for the Litchfield Female Academy or the Litchfield Law School, they do not survive. Researchers and staff have identified students through letters, diaries, family histories and genealogies, and town histories as well as catalogues of students printed in various years. Art and needlework have provided further identification of Female Academy Students, and Litchfield County Bar records document a number of Law School students. The history of both schools and the identification of the students who attended them owe credit to the early 20th century research and documentation efforts of Emily Noyes Vanderpoel and Samuel Fisher, and the late 20th century research and documentation efforts of Lynne Templeton Brickley and the Litchfield Historical Society staff.
CITATION OF ATTENDANCE:
"List of Pupils Gathered from Letters and Other Sources" (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903.
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