Ladies' select boarding and day school, Kalamazoo, MI

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States

A small school for young women was run at 21 South St., Kalamazoo, Michigan, for some number of years, including 1869-1871. Its principal was Bessie F. Patrick,^[1] and the number of students - some of whom boarded at the school - was about 30.^[2]

In 1869, the residents at the school, including principal, a teacher, support staff, and boarding students were as follows (lines extracted from Kalamazoo directory):

• Patrick Bessie F., select school, 21 South, h. same.^[3]
• Hinsdale Ellen, assistant teacher, 21 South.^[4]
• Bates Hannah J., housekeeper, 21 South.^[5]
• Bates Jennie, domestic, 21 South.^[5]
• Curtis Jennie, student, 21 South, bds. 40 S. West.^[6]
• Fisher Helen, student, bds. 21 South, res. Three Rivers.^[7]
• Mansur Anna, student, bds. 21 South, res. Sandwich.^[8]
• Paddock Emma, student, bds. 21 South, res Newaygo.^[9]

In 1871, Susan Armstrong joined the domestic staff of the school.^[10]

Sources

1. ↑ Thomas, page 298
2. ↑ Leftwich, page 31, citing Brown, page 152
3. ↑ Thomas, page 283
4. ↑ Thomas, page 245.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Thomas, page 189
6. ↑ Thomas, page 213
7. ↑ Thomas, page 228
8. ↑ Thomas, page 268
9. ↑ Thomas, page 282
10. ↑ Leftwich, page 31

• Brown, C. Exera, Brown's Directory of Kalamazoo, Mich. with a Classified Business Directory, Kalamazoo, Michigan: n.p., 1871.
• Leftwich, Carson Jeanne, "Survival Strategies of Black Kalamazooans: Migration, Kinship Networks and Work in a Midwestern Village, 1860-1900," MA thesis, Western Michigan University, 1997.
• Thomas, James M., Kalamazoo County Directory: With a History of the County from Its Earliest Settlement, 1869.