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Fanny Strong Sherman

Other Name:
Fanny Strong
Gender:
Female
Born:
November 11, 1784
Died:
1848
Home Town:
Woodbury, CT
Marriage(s):
Elijah Sherman (October 14, 1805)
Biographical Notes:
On November 11, 1784 Fanny Strong Sherman of Woodbury, Connecticut was born. In 1802 her parents, John and Sarah Walker Strong, sent her to Litchfield, Connecticut where she spent the year studying at Sarah Pierce's Female Academy. Three years later she married Elijah Sherman on October 14, 1805, and the couple had seven children. Fanny passed away in 1848.
Education
Years at LFA:
1802
Related Objects and Documents
In the Ledger:
help 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:
Fanny is listed as a fellow student in Maryann Bacon's 1802 Journal (Litchfield Historical Society - Litchfield Female Academy Collection).

1802 Litchfield Female Academy Catalog (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
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