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Harriet Lucretia Grant
Gender:
Female
Born:
September 9, 1814
Died:
January 3, 1892
Home Town:
Litchfield, CT
Biographical Notes:
Harriet Lucretia Grant, daughter of Charles and Hannah McNeil Grant of Litchfield, Connecticut, was born September 9, 1814. From 1829 though 1831 she attended Sarah Pierce's Female Academy. Harriet is listed in the 1860 census as residing with her brother David, a farmer. She died in Litchfield in 1892.
Additional Notes:
Primary resources for Harriet Lucretia Grant are located in the Litchfield Female Academy collection, Series 2: Student Papers, Records, and Documents, Folder 51-53 and the Grant Family Papers.
Education
Years at LFA:
1829-1831
Immediate Family (Why only immediate family?)
- Charles William Grant
Brother
LFA (1828) - John Mason Grant
Brother
LFA (1830-1831) - Charles Grant (1784-1821)
Father - Hannah McNeil Grant
Mother
Related Objects and Documents
In the Ledger:
- Harriet Lucretia Grant Diploma
- Sampler by Harriet Lucretia Grant
- Litchfield Female Academy Collection
- Grant family papers
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 Litchfield Academy ... 1830" (Litchfield Historical Society - Litchfield Female Academy collection).
Harriet kept a notebook while attending the Litchfield Female Academy from 1829-1831 (Litchfield Historical Society - Litchfield Female Academy collection).
1829 Litchfield Female Academy Winter Session Catalogue (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
1829 Litchfield Female Academy Summer Session Catalogue (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
1831 Litchfield Female Academy Winter Session Catalogue (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicals of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
Harriet kept a notebook while attending the Litchfield Female Academy from 1829-1831 (Litchfield Historical Society - Litchfield Female Academy collection).
1829 Litchfield Female Academy Winter Session Catalogue (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
1829 Litchfield Female Academy Summer Session Catalogue (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
1831 Litchfield Female Academy Winter Session Catalogue (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicals of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
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