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Harriet Smith Donaldson
Other Name:
Harriet Eliza Smith
Gender:
Female
Born:
August 10, 1816
Died:
June 9, 1909
Home Town:
Poultney, VT
Later Residences:
Whitefish, WI
Aztalan, WI
Medina, WI
Aztalan, WI
Medina, WI
Marriage(s):
John Watts Donaldson (June 3, 1843)
Biographical Notes:
Harriet Smith Donaldson of Poultney, Vermont attended the Litchfield Female Academy in 1827 and 1828. The daughter of Nathaniel Fisher Taylor and Rachel Taylor Fisher, she born born August 10, 1816. On June 3, 1843 she wed John Watts Donaldson of Hardwick, New York. After their marriage, the couple relocated to Wisconsin and had two children. Harriet passed away on June 8, 1909.
Education
Years at LFA:
1827-1828
Immediate Family (Why only immediate family?)
- John Watts Donaldson
Husband - Rachel Taylor Smith
Mother - Nathaniel Fisher Smith
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:
1827 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).
1828 Litchfield Female Academy Catalogue (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
1828 Litchfield Female Academy Catalogue (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
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