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Asenath Cowles Austin
Other Name:
Asenath Cowles
Gender:
Female
Born:
Unknown
Died:
Unknown
Home Town:
Sheffield, MA
Marriage(s):
Orson Austin (unknown)
Biographical Notes:
Asenath Cowles Austin was the daughter of Philo Cowels and Elizabeth Smith Cowels of Sheffield, Massachusetts. Asenath attended the Litchfield Female Academy in 1831. She married Orson Austin of New Hartford, Connecticut. No other information is known about her life.
Education
Years at LFA:
1831
Immediate Family (Why only immediate family?)
- Orson Austin
Husband - Philo Cowels
Father - Elizabeth Smith Cowles
Mother
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:
1831 Litchfield Female Academy Winter Session Catalogue (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 To 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
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