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Hannah Starkweather Cooke
Other Name:
Hannah Sloan Starkweather
Gender:
Female
Born:
March 18, 1800
Died:
July 2, 1852
Home Town:
Williamstown, MA
Marriage(s):
Parsons Cooke (June 5, 1826)
Biographical Notes:
Hannah Starkweather Cooke, born March 18, 1800, was the daughter of William and Polly Sloan Starkweather of Williamstown, Massachusetts. In 1819 William and Polly sent Hannah to Litchfield, Connecticut, where she studied at Sarah Pierce's Female Academy.
On June 5, 1826 she married Parsons Cooke a minister and editor who had graduated from Williams College in 1822. Little else is known about Hannah's life until her death on July 2, 1852.
On June 5, 1826 she married Parsons Cooke a minister and editor who had graduated from Williams College in 1822. Little else is known about Hannah's life until her death on July 2, 1852.
Education
Years at LFA:
1819
Immediate Family (Why only immediate family?)
- Parsons Cooke
Husband - Ann B. Starkweather
Sister
LFA (c.1811) - Mary Starkweather Bartlett
Sister
LFA (1809) - Polly Sloan Starkweather
Mother - William Starkweather
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:
1819 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).
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