Emma
Frye
Born in Willimantic, Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 63
in Willimantic, Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States
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Biography
Emma was born in Willimantic, Connecticut, in 1861, the daughter of Joseph and Eliza (Lewis) Frye or Fry. She grew up in Windham, Connecticut.[1][2] She graduated from Natchaug High School in Willimantic, and also attended the Rhode Island State Normal School, a training college for teachers, graduating as a member of the class of 1881.
After graduation, she taught at Pawtucket and West Farrington, R.I., and also Attleboro, Massachusetts. She was later hired at the Knapp School in Somerville, Massachusetts. She resigned from the Somerville position in 1900, after ten years.[3] The same year she was hired to a position at the Dearborn School in Roxbury, Massachusetts.[4] She was an educator there for 23 years.[5]
Emma died in 1924, in the same Willimantic home that she had been born in 63 years before. [6] She is buried with her parents at the Old Willimantic Cemetery.[7]
Sources
- ↑ "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN7R-X3L : 19 March 2020), Emma Fry in entry for Joseph R Fry, 1870.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFZQ-M9P : 29 July 2017), Emma Fry in household of Joseph R Fry, Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States
- ↑ Annual Report of the City of Somerville, 1900, p. 219
- ↑ Officials and Employees of the City of Boston, 1909, p. 115
- ↑ Manual of the Public Schools of the City of Boston, 1923, p. 78
- ↑ Boston Teacher Succumbs to Illness, Boston Daily Globe, 22 September 1924, p. 5
- ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #78739553 Old Willimantic Cemetery, Willimantic, Connecticut
- "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9TX-VHJ : accessed 24 March 2020), Emma Frye in household of Harry S Hardy, Somerville city Ward 3, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
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