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Harriet Ann Benedict
Gender:
Female
Born:
1810
Died:
1840
Home Town:
Watertown, NY
Biographical Notes:
Harriet Ann Benedict, born in 1810, attended the Litchfield Female Academy from 1822 until 1825. Her father, Amos Benedict, had attended the Litchfield Law School and her mother, Anne Stone Benedict, had studied at the Female Academy. Harriet died in 1840.
Education
Years at LFA:
1822-1825
Immediate Family (Why only immediate family?)
- Eliza Benedict
Sister
LFA (1830) - Ann Benedict
Sister
LFA (Unknown) - Amelia Caroline Benedict
Sister
LFA (1822-1825) - Anne Stone Benedict
Mother
LFA (1807) - Anne Peck Stone
Mother - Amos Benedict
Father
LLS (1802)
Related Objects and Documents
In the Ledger:
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:
Harriet wrote an inscription and signed her name "H.A. Benedict" in Jane M. Seymour's Album (Litchfield Historical Society - Litchfield Female Academy collection).
She is mentioned in Mary L. Wilbor's 1822 Diary. (Vanderpoel, Emiliy Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 To 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
1822 Litchfield Female Academy Catalogue published in The Litchfield Eagle on November 25, 1822 (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 To 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
1823 Litchfield Female Academy Summer Session Catalogue (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. More Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 To 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1927).
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She is mentioned in Mary L. Wilbor's 1822 Diary. (Vanderpoel, Emiliy Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 To 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
1822 Litchfield Female Academy Catalogue published in The Litchfield Eagle on November 25, 1822 (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 To 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
1823 Litchfield Female Academy Summer Session Catalogue (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. More Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 To 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1927).
1823 ...
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