While Elmira is noted as having the nation's first college
for WOMEN giving an education equivalent to that received by men, it also
had this school to train women, or rather "Young Ladies," in the
practices believed to be suitable for their gender in that pre-feminist
era. Other than music, we see no clue to its curriculum, but I would guess
it was a sort of "finishing school" rather than an academic curriculum.
It was apparently founded in 1848.
See History
in 1879 Book |
| School: Miss Thurston's Seminary for Young
Ladies |
| Township: City of Elmira, Chemung County NY |
| Directory Ad |
| Year: 1860 |
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