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Sarah Ransom
Gender:
Female
Born:
September 25, 1801
Died:
1870
Home Town:
Barkhamstead, CT
Biographical Notes:
On September 25, 1801 Sarah Ransom was born to William and Lucy Phyler Ransom of Barkhamstead, Connecticut. Around the year 1817 Sarah received a formal educaiton in Litchfield, Connecticut at Sarah Pierce's Female Academy. No other information is known about Sarah's life until her death in 1870.
Education
Years at LFA:
1817
Immediate Family (Why only immediate family?)
- Lucy Phyler Ransom
Mother - William Ransom
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:
"List of Pupils (No Date)" (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
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