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Clarissa Eunice Ely
Gender:
Female
Born:
May 1, 1801
Died:
Unknown
Home Town:
Saybrook, CT
Biographical Notes:
Clarissa Eunice Ely, daughter of Richard Ely and Eunice Bliss Ely of Saybrook, Connecticut, was born May 1, 1801. Her father, a doctor and Yale College graduate, sent Clarissa and her younger sister Catherine both to Litchfield, Connecticut to study at Sarah Pierce's Female Academy. Clarissa completed her studies at Lichfield in 1816. Little else is known about her life.
Education
Years at LFA:
1816
Immediate Family (Why only immediate family?)
- Catherine Ely McKinney
Sister
LFA (1823) - Eunice Bliss Ely
Mother - Richard Ely
Father
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:
1816 Litchfield Female Academy Catalog (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
1816 List of Subscribers in II Vol. "Universal History" (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
1816 List of Subscribers in II Vol. "Universal History" (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
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