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Caroline Gold Gardner
Other Name:
Caroline Wolcott Gold
Gender:
Female
Born:
July 18, 1795
Died:
Unknown
Home Town:
Pittsfield, MA
Marriage(s):
William Gardner (June 6, 1818)
Biographical Notes:
Caroline Gold Gardner, daughter of lawyer Thomas Gold of Pittsfield, Massachusetts and his wife Martha Marsh Gold, was born July 18, 1795. Because of her families belief in formal educattion (Her father graduated from Yale in 1788, and her brother Thomas Augustus Gold attended the Litchfield Law School in 1808) it is believed that Caroline may have attended the Litchfield Female Academy around the year 1811. On June 6, 1818 Caroline married William Gardner, and the couple had one daughter during their marriage.
Additional Notes:
Caroline Gold Gardner of Pittsfield, Massachusetts is listed as a subscriber to Sarah Pierce's text "Universal History" in 1811. It is known that not all subscribers necessarily attended the school. Until a solid citation of attendance can be found Caroline will be considered a possible student.
-1811 List of Subscribers in Ist Vol. "Universal History" (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 To 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
-1811 List of Subscribers in Ist Vol. "Universal History" (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 To 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
Immediate Family (Why only immediate family?)
- William Gardner
Husband - Martha Marsh Gold
Mother - Thomas Augustus Gold
Brother
LLS (1808) - Thomas Gold
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:
[We are currently working to update and confirm citations of attendance.]
Secondary Sources:
Marsh, Dwight Whitney. Genealogy of the Marsh Family. Amherst: Press of J.E. Williams, 1886.
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