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Louisa Benham Burrows
Other Name:
Louisa Benham; Louisa Warner
Gender:
Female
Born:
August 23, 1791
Died:
December 18, 1837
Home Town:
New Milford, CT
Later Residences:
Macon, GA
Brookfield, CT
Brookfield, CT
Marriage(s):
Oliver Warner, Jr. (September 2, 1809)
Rueben Burrows (unknown)
Rueben Burrows (unknown)
Biographical Notes:
Louisa Benham Burrows, daughter of Reverend Benjamin M. Benham and Rebecca Tuttle Benham, may have attended the Litchfield Female Academy around the year 1807. On September 2, 1809 Louisa married Oliver Warner, Jr., and after his death married Reuben Burrow of Macon, Georgia. After her second husband died, she returned to Brookfield, Connecticut and lived there until her death in 1837.
Education
Years at LFA:
c.1807
Immediate Family (Why only immediate family?)
- Sarah Benham Boardman
Sister
LFA (c.1812) - Oliver Warner, Jr.
Husband - Rueben Burrows
Husband - Caroline Benham Hawley
Sister
LFA (1820) - Rebecca Tuttle Benham
Mother - Benjamin M. Benham
Father
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:
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