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Marcia Burton Spencer

Other Name:
Marcia Content Burton
Gender:
Female
Born:
March 30, 1808
Died:
1887
Home Town:
Waterbury, CT
Later Residences:
Waterbury, CT
Marriage(s):
Willard Spencer (June 27, 1830)
Biographical Notes:
Marcia Burton Spencer was born on March 30, 1808 to Joseph Burton and Susannah Bronson Burton in Waterbury, Connecticut. Marcia attended the Litchfield Female Academy in 1823. She married Willard Spencer of Waterbury, Connecticut on June 27, 1830, and they had five children together. Marcia passed away in 1887.
Education
Years at LFA:
1823
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:
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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