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Helen Aikin Taylor

Other Name:
Helen M. Aikin
Gender:
Female
Born:
July 4, 1810
Died:
Unknown
Home Town:
Quaker Hill, NY
Marriage(s):
John W. Taylor (unknown)
Biographical Notes:
Helen Aikin Taylor, born July 4, 1810 in Quaker Hill, New York, attended Sarah Pierce's Litchfield Female Academy in 1825. Her older sister Almira Aikin had attended the school five years earlier in 1820. Her father, Albro Aikin, worked as a merchant, as well as a judge, politician, and farmer. While the date is unknown, Helen married John W. Taylor after completing her studies in Litchfield.
Education
Years at LFA:
1825
help 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:
1825 Litchfield Female Academy Catalogue (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
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