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Martha Bull Turner
Other Name:
Martha Bull
Gender:
Female
Born:
June 27, 1809
Died:
Unknown
Home Town:
Hartford, CT
Later Residences:
Quincy, IL
Denmark, IA
Denmark, IA
Marriage(s):
Asa Turner (August 30, 1830)
Biographical Notes:
Martha Bull Turner was born to Isaac Dickerman Bull and Mary Watson Bull on June 27, 1809 in Hartford, Connecticut. Martha attended the Litchfield Female Academy from 1825-1826. Four year later she married Asa Turner, a Yale Divinity School graduate and minister, on August 30, 1830. The two later lived in Quincy, Illinois and Denmark, Iowa.
Education
Years at LFA:
1825-1826
Immediate Family (Why only immediate family?)
- Asa Turner
Husband - Elizabeth Bull Northrop
Sister
LFA (1824-1825,1828) - Mary Watson Bull
Mother - Isaac Dickerman Bull
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:
1825 Litchfield Female Academy Catalogue (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
1826 Litchfield Female Academy Catalogue (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
1826 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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