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Celia Cleaver Potter

Other Name:
Celia Cleaver
Gender:
Female
Born:
July 12, 1794
Died:
Unknown
Home Town:
Litchfield, CT
Marriage(s):
Potter (unknown)
Biographical Notes:
Celia Cleaver Potter was born on July 12, 1794 to Tobias Cleaver and Sylvia Adams Cleaver of Litchfield Connecticut. It is believed that around the year 1809 she may have attended the Litchfield Female Academy, as some of her sisters did. Sometime later she married a Mr. Potter from Vermont. No other information is known about her life at this time.
Education
Years at LFA:
1809
Immediate Family (Why only immediate family?)
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:
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