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Catherine Stedman Isham
Other Name:
Catherine Gordon Stedman
Gender:
Female
Born:
1803
Died:
Unknown
Home Town:
Hartford, CT
Marriage(s):
William Isham (December 6, 1827)
Biographical Notes:
Catherine Stedman Isham was born in 1803 in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1819 her parents, Griffin and Elizabeth Gordon Stedman, sent her to Litchfield, Connecticut to study at Sarah Pierce's Female Academy. Several years later Catherine married William Isham, a businessman from New London, Connecticut, on December 6, 1827. During their marriage the couple had four children.
Education
Years at LFA:
1819
Immediate Family (Why only immediate family?)
- William Isham
Husband - Elizabeth Gordon Stedman
Mother - Griffin Stedman
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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