Showing posts with label Tyson (Martha Ellicott). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tyson (Martha Ellicott). 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, November 26, 2018

Nathan Tyson's patented flour drying process - 1831

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Nathan Tyson (1787-1867) married George Ellicott's daughter Martha Ellicott (1795-1873) in 1815 at the Quaker Meeting house in EC.  Th...
Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Chief Little Turtle visited George Ellicott's home in 1807

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The then famous Native American chief Little Turtle (c1752-1812) and other chiefs visited Ellicott mills during Christmas week 1807 after ...
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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 12, 2018

Martha Ellicott Tyson - Swarthmore founder, writer, Quaker elder

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Martha (Ellicott) Tyson (1795-1873) was born in Ellicott’s Mills to George Ellicott, son of one of the founders, and younger sister of E...
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...