Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
11/08/1837 AD founded
Mount Holyoke is founded (and admits students) by Mary Lyon as Mount Holyoke Female Seminary after being chartered as a teaching seminary.
Lyon is considered to have been an innovator in women's education. Prior to founding Mount Holyoke, Lyon contributed to the development of both Hartford Female Seminary and Ipswich Female Seminary. She was also involved in the creation of Wheaton Female Seminary (now Wheaton College) in 1834. Lyon was a Congregationalist.
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary was one of several Christian institutions of higher education for young women established during the first half of the 19th century. Lyon's contemporaries include Sarah Pierce (Litchfield Female Academy, 1792); Catharine Beecher (Hartford Female Seminary, 1823); Zilpah P. Grant Banister (Ipswich Female Seminary, 1828); and George Washington Doane (St. Mary's Hall, 1837 now called Doane Academy).
Both Vassar College and Wellesley College were patterned after Mount Holyoke.
Lattitude: 42.2583° N
Longitude: 72.575° W
Region: North America
Modern Day United States
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