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Margaret Clark Hunt
Other Name:
Margaret Eliza Clark; Margaret Eliza Clarke
Gender:
Female
Born:
1812
Died:
Unknown
Home Town:
St. Mary's, GA
Marriage(s):
John Hunt (April 11, 1840)
Biographical Notes:
Margaret Clark Hunt was born in 1812 to Archibald Bellinger Clark and Rhoda Wadsworth Clark of St. Mary's, Georgia. Both Archibald and Rhoda had received educations in Litchfield, and following this tradition they sent Margaret to attend the Litchfield Female Academy from 1824 through 1825. On April 11, 1840 she married John Hunt.
Education
Years at LFA:
1824-1825
Immediate Family (Why only immediate family?)
- Henry Elijah Wadsworth Clark
Brother
LFA (1824) - John Hunt
Husband - Rhoda Wadsworth Clark
Mother
LFA (1800,1802) - Archibald Bellinger Clark
Father
LLS (1799-1803)
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:
1824 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).
1825 Litchfield Female Academy Catalogue (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
1825 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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