Showing posts with label Patapsco Female Institute. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Patapsco Female Institute. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Schools at Ellicott mills and Chickasaw students

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Martha (Ellicott) Tyson (1795-1873) wrote the book The Settlement of Ellicott's Mills , 1871 which included several education related...
Monday, February 25, 2019

Civil War female spies and their connection to the Patapsco Female Institute

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Patapsco Female Institute had at least two connections to famous Civil War Confederate female spies.  Two daughters of Rose O'Neal Gre...
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Sunday, March 18, 2018

Patapsco Female Institute and the women who ran it

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As pictured in 1854, the institute (opened 1837) was managed or owned by three ladies ... and a few men.  The most well-known, from 1841 t...
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Monday, March 20, 2017

Lilly (Tyson) Manly Elliott turned the Patapsco Female Institute into a 60 room home, then hotel

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Lily or Lilly Tyson (1852-1924) was a descendant of two prominent Quaker milling and merchant families – the Tysons of Jericho Mills north...
Monday, March 28, 2016

Jane Gilmor Howard, cookbook author, raised millions for starving Southerners

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150 years ago, Jane (Gilmor) Howard led more than 350 Maryland women to collect the equivalent of $2.3 million dollars for the starving wo...
Monday, March 7, 2016

Linwood, Mary Merrick and Jeanne Simons

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“Linwood” was the home of a possible future Saint, at one time owned by the great-grandson of Martha Washington and would become a school ...
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