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Elizabeth Wakeman Swift
Other Name:
Elizabeth Wakeman
Gender:
Female
Born:
1784
Died:
1852
Home Town:
Ballston Spa, NY
Marriage(s):
Nathaniel Swift (1810)
Biographical Notes:
Elizabeth Wakeman Swift of Ballston Spa, New York was born in 1784. It is likely that as a young woman her parents, Lloyd and Sarah Wakeman, sent her to study at the Litchfield Female Academy like her two sisters. In 1810 Elizabeth married Rev. Nathaniel Swif of Warren, Connecticut and the couple had three children. Elizabeth passed away sometime in 1852.
Education
Years at LFA:
Unknown
Immediate Family (Why only immediate family?)
- Nathaniel Swift
Husband - Zilpha Wakeman DeForest
Sister
LFA (1816) - Nancy Wakeman Goodman
Sister
LFA (1816) - Lloyd Wakeman
Father - Sarah Redfield Wakeman
Mother
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:
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