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Elvira Wheaton Flemming
Other Name:
Elvira Wheaton
Gender:
Female
Born:
Unknown
Died:
Unknown
Home Town:
Pompey, NY
Marriage(s):
John Flemming (unknown)
Biographical Notes:
Elvira Wheaton Flemming of Pompey, New York was the daughter of Augustus and Hannah Givens Wheaton. In 1828 she traveled to Litchfield, Connecticut where she studied at Sarah Pierce's Female Academy. She later married John Flemming , and the couple had two children.
Education
Years at LFA:
1828
Immediate Family (Why only immediate family?)
- Jane M. Wheaton
Sister
LFA (c.1830) - John Flemming
Husband - Caroline Wheaton Clark
Sister
LFA (1830) - Augustus Wheaton
Father - Hannah Givens Wheaton
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:
1828 Litchfield Female Academy Winter Session Catalogue (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
1828 Litchfield Female Academy Summer Session Catalogue (Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
1828 Litchfield Female Academy Summer Session Catalogue (Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
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