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Sophia Blair Morrow
Other Name:
Sophia Blair
Gender:
Female
Born:
1811
Died:
Unknown
Home Town:
Lebanon, NY
Marriage(s):
John Morrow (unknown)
Biographical Notes:
Sophia Blair Morrow, the daughter of David Blair and Ruth Burns Blair, was born in Lebanon, New York in 1811. In 1829 David and Ruth sent Sophia to Litchfield, Connecticut to study at Sarah Pierce's Female Academy. She later married John Morrow and they had six children.
Education
Years at LFA:
1829
Immediate Family (Why only immediate family?)
- John Morrow
Husband - Ruth Burns Blair
Mother - David Blair
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:
1829 Litchfield Female Academy Summer Session Catalogue (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
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