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Eliza Adam Sedgwick


Other Name:
Eliza Adam
Gender:
Female
Born:
August 20, 1815
Died:
March 1, 1910
Home Town:
Canaan, CT
Marriage(s):
Philo C. Sedgwick (October 2, 1833)
Biographical Notes:
Eliza Adam Sedgwick, daughter of John Adams, attended Sarah Pierce's Female Academy in Litchfield from 1828-1831. On October 2, 1833 she married Philo C. Sedgwick of Cornwall, Connecticut, and they had five children. Eliza passed way on March 1, 1910 at the age of niney-four.

Education
Years at LFA:
1828-1831

help The Citation of Attendance provides primary source documentation of the student’s attendance at the Litchfield Female Academy and/or the Litchfield Law School. If a citation is absent, the student is thought to have attended but currently lacks primary source confirmation.

Records for the schools were sporadic, especially in the formative years of both institutions. If instructors kept comprehensive records for the Litchfield Female Academy or the Litchfield Law School, they do not survive. Researchers and staff have identified students through letters, diaries, family histories and genealogies, and town histories as well as catalogues of students printed in various years. Art and needlework have provided further identification of Female Academy Students, and Litchfield County Bar records document a number of Law School students. The history of both schools and the identification of the students who attended them owe credit to the early 20th century research and documentation efforts of Emily Noyes Vanderpoel and Samuel Fisher, and the late 20th century research and documentation efforts of Lynne Templeton Brickley and the Litchfield Historical Society staff.
CITATION OF ATTENDANCE:
1828 Litchfield Female Academy Summer Session Catalogue (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).

1829 Litchfield Female Academy Winter Session Catalogue (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).

1829 Litchfield Female Academy Summer Session Catalogue (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).

"Catalogue of the Litchfield Academy ... 1830" (Litchfield Historical Society - Litchfield Female Academy Collection).

1831 Litchfield Female Academy Winter Session Catalogue (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. ...
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Secondary Sources:
Sedgwick, Hubert Merrill. A Sedgwick Genealogy. New Haven Colony Historical Society, 1961.

Ellis, William Arba, Comp. Norwich University 1819-1911. Her History, Her Gradutes, Her Roll of Honor, Vol. 2. Montpelier, VT: The Capital City Press, 1911.

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