Person:Mary Lyon (75)

Watchers
m. 2 Sep 1784
  1. Jemima Lyon1787 - 1838
  2. Mary Lyon1797 - 1849
  3. Freelove Lyon1801 - 1840
Facts and Events
Name Mary Lyon
Gender Female
Birth[1] 28 Feb 1797 Buckland, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States
Death[2][3] 6 Mar 1849 South Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States


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Mary Mason Lyon (; February 28, 1797 – March 5, 1849) was an American pioneer in women's education. She established the Wheaton Female Seminary in Norton, Massachusetts, (now Wheaton College) in 1834. She then established Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College) in South Hadley, Massachusetts, in 1837 and served as its first president (or "principal") for 12 years. Lyon's vision fused intellectual challenge and moral purpose. She valued socioeconomic diversity and endeavored to make the seminary affordable for students of modest means.

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References
  1. Buckland, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Buckland, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1934)
    p. 32.

    LYON, Mary, "founder of Mt. Holyoke College", d. Aaron, [born] Feb. 28, 1797. PR30

  2. Massachusetts, United States. Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915
    [1].

    Deaths registered in the town of South Hadley for the year, 1849.
    No.: 3
    Date of Death: March 6 1849
    Name: Mary Lyon
    Age: 52
    Place of Death: South Hadley
    Sex and Condition: Single Female
    Occupation: Principal of the M H Fem Seminary
    Place of Birth: Buckland
    Parents: [blank]
    Cause: Erysipelas

  3. Find A Grave: Mount Holyoke College Burial Site, in Find A Grave
    Mary Lyon.

    MARY LYON
    The founder of
    Mount Holyoke
    Female Seminary
    and for twelve years,
    its Principal.
    A Teacher
    for thirty five years:
    and of more than
    three thousand Pupils.
    Born Feb. 28, 1797,
    Died March 5, 1849.