Patapsco Female Institute

Date: Sep 2022
Location: Ellicott City, Howard, Maryland, United States
Surnames/tags: Ellicott City, Maryland Patapsco Female Institute

The goal of this project is to assemble a few fragments related to the history of the Patapsco Female Institute, Ellicott's Mills, Maryland. The town is currently known as Ellicott City, Howard, Maryland. The Institute was in operation from 1837 into the early 1890s.

Right now this project just has one member, me. I am J Stewart.

Here are some of the tasks that I think need to be done. I'll be working on them, and could use your help.

• Connect (Extremely Informally) with the Friends of the Patapsco Female Institute (somewhat active on FaceBook (September 2022).

Description

• Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps was the most prominent leader of the Institute. Minimal biography for her (and links to more sources..) here: Hart-12246

Minimalist List Of Students (who have WikiTree Profiles)

(In case the reader hadn't noticed,' this profile creator has Absolutely NO intention of listing ALL PFI students here!!)

• Margaret Sarah Cecelia (Stewart) Sherman Stewart-17736

Sources

• Eighth Annual Report of the Patapsco Female Institute, 1848 - 49. Available at The Internet Archive (archive.org). URL: <iframe src="[1]" width="560" height="384" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe>

• An 8-page description and discussion about the Patapsco Female Institute is included in this source: History of higher education of women in the South prior to 1860, Mrs. I. M. E. Blandin (New York: Neale Publishing Company, 1909), pages 172 - 179. This source is freely available from The Hathi Trust (hathitrust.org); accessed 5 September 2022.

Potential URL: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t8hd7r18v

• There are "several" of Phelps' publications available at either [archive.org] or hathitrust.org

Will you join me? Please post a comment here on this page, in G2G using the project tag, or send me a private message. Thanks!