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Frances Cruger Strong

Other Name:
Frances Minerva Cruger; Frances Minerva Crouger
Gender:
Female
Born:
December 7, 1806
Died:
December 13, 1882
Home Town:
Bath, NY
Later Residences:
Springfield, IL
Bath, NY
Marriage(s):
Schuyler S. Strong (December 22, 1822)
Biographical Notes:
Frances Cruger Strong was born on December 7, 1806 to Daniel Cruger and Hannah Clement Cruger of Bath, New York. She attended a boarding school in Danville, New York and the Litchfield Female Academy from 1818 to 1820. She married Schuyler S. Strong in 1822. During their marriage the couple had twelve children, and later resided in Springfield, Illinois. After her husband's death, Frances returned to her hometown of Bath, New York where she lived for many years.
Education
Years at LFA:
1818-1820
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:
"Catalogue of the Ladies Academy in Litchfield" 1818 by J.A. Shepard (Litchfield Historical Society - Litchfield Female Academy Collection).

1819 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).

1819 Litchfield Female Academy Winter Session Catalogue (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. More Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1927).

1820 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).

1820 Litchfield Female Academy Winter Session Catalogue ...
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