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Catherine Blauvelt Wilmarth

Other Name:
Catherine Blauvelt
Gender:
Female
Born:
Unknown
Died:
Unknown
Home Town:
Greenbush, NY
Marriage(s):
Leander Wilmarth (September 26, 1820)
Biographical Notes:
Catherine Blauvelt Wilmarth, daughter of Nicholas Blauvelt and Hester Graham Blauvelt, was born in Green Bush, New York. In 1818 she was sent to Litchfield, Connecticut to study at Sarah Pierce's Female Academy, and two years later married Leander Wilmarth. During their marriage Catherine and Leander had one child.
Education
Years at LFA:
1818
Related Objects and Documents
In the Ledger:
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:
1816 List of Subscribers in II Vol. "Universal History" (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).

"Catalogue of the Ladies Academy in Litchfield" 1818 by J.A. Shepard (Litchfield Historical Society - Litchfield Female Academy Collection).
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