Weathersfield is a town in Windsor County,Vermont,United States. The population was 2,842 at the 2020 census.
Middlebury is the shire town of Addison County,Vermont,United States. As of the 2020 census,the population was 9,152. Middlebury is home to Middlebury College and the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History and the adjacent hardware store.
Emma Willard was an American female education activist who dedicated her life to education. She worked in several schools and founded the first school for women's higher education in the United States,the Troy Female Seminary in Troy,New York. With the success of her school,Willard was able to travel across the country and abroad to promote education for women. The seminary was renamed the Emma Willard School in 1895 in her honor.
Jonathan Hunt was an American lawyer and politician from Vermont. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives for the state of Vermont and was a member of the prominent Hunt family of Vermont.
Winston Lewis Prouty was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party,he served as a United States Senator from Vermont from 1959 until his death. He was previously a member of the United States House of Representatives,serving Vermont's At-large congressional district,from 1951 to 1959.
Edward John Phelps was a lawyer and diplomat from Vermont. He is notable for his service as Envoy to Court of St. James's from 1885 to 1889. In addition,Phelps was a founder of the American Bar Association,and served as its president from 1880 to 1881.
Stephen Row Bradley was an American lawyer,judge and politician. He served as a United States Senator from the state of Vermont and as the President pro tempore of the United States Senate during the early 1800s.
Emma Willard School,originally called Troy Female Seminary and often referred to simply as Emma,is an independent university-preparatory day and boarding school for young women located in Troy,New York. Located on Mount Ida,it offers grades 9–12 and postgraduate coursework.
Lawrence Brainerd was an American businessman,abolitionist and United States Senator from Vermont. A longtime anti-slavery activist,after leaving the Jacksonians in the 1830s,Brainerd was active in the Whig,Liberty,and Free Soil parties,and was one of the organizers of the Republican Party when it was formed as the main anti-slavery party in the mid-1850s. Brainerd's longtime commitment to the cause of abolition was recognized in 1854,when opponents of slavery in the Vermont General Assembly chose him to fill a five-month vacancy in the United States Senate.
Edward Curtis Smith was an American attorney,businessman,and politician from Vermont. A Republican,he was most notable for his service as the 47th governor of Vermont from 1898 to 1900.
Henry Joel Scudder was a United States Representative from New York.
Stephen Royce was an American lawyer,judge and politician. Originally a Democratic-Republican,and later a Whig Party,he became a Republican when the party was formed in the mid-1850s. Royce served as an associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court from 1829 to 1846,chief justice from 1846 to 1852,and 23rd governor of Vermont from 1854 to 1856.
John Boardman Page was an American businessman and politician from Vermont. He served as Vermont State Treasurer from 1860 to 1866 and was the 30th governor of Vermont from 1867 to 1869.
The Emma Willard House is a historic house at 131 South Main Street in Middlebury,Vermont,United States. Built in 1809,it was from 1809 to 1819 the home of Emma Willard (1787–1870),an influential pioneer in the development of women's education in the United States. Willard established a school for girls at her home in 1814 known as the Middlebury Female Seminary. The school was a precursor to the Emma Willard School,an all girl,private boarding and university preparatory day school opened by Willard in 1821 in Troy,New York. The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965. It now houses the Middlebury College Admissions Office.
Oakwood Cemetery is a nonsectarian rural cemetery in northeastern Troy,New York,United States. It operates under the direction of the Troy Cemetery Association,a non-profit board of directors that deals strictly with the operation of the cemetery. It was established in 1848 in response to the growing rural cemetery movement in New England and went into service in 1850. The cemetery was designed by architect John C. Sidney and underwent its greatest development in the late 19th century under superintendent John Boetcher,who incorporated rare foliage and a clear landscape design strategy. Oakwood was the fourth rural cemetery opened in New York and its governing body was the first rural cemetery association created in the state.
The Emma Hart Willard Memorial,is a public artwork designed by Marion Guild and Pierre Zwick. It was sculpted by T.A. Campbell who worked for the Houlihan Shop in Rutland,Vermont. Erected in 1941,the memorial is located in a triangular-shaped park at the intersection of route 30 and route 7 in downtown Middlebury,Vermont.
Charlestown Female Seminary was a Christian school in Charlestown,Massachusetts. Opened in 1830,the female seminary was the second school in Charlestown for young women.
Alice Matilda "Olive" White Smith was an American writer and poet.
Lucinda Hinsdale Stone was an early American feminist,educator,traveler,writer,and philanthropist. Stone was the first woman in the United States to take classes of young women abroad to study,that means to illustrate history and literature.
Charles Linsley was a Vermont lawyer and politician. The son-in-law of Daniel Chipman,he was notable for his service as United States Attorney for the District of Vermont (1845-1849),member of the Vermont House of Representatives (1858-1859),and U.S. Collector of Customs for Vermont (1860-1861).
