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Ellen Wentworth, Class of 1883, RFS (CDV by Alfred W. Anderson, Haverhill, Massachusetts)
(When Exeter’s Robinson Female Seminary (RFS) opened in 1867, it was intended to be an adademic school similar to Phillips Exeter Academy. At the time, schools for young women tended to focus on needlework and deportment. Not so at RFS, where women were taught academic subjects only: arithmetic, mathematics, history, English grammar, botany, physiology, algebra, rhetoric, geometry, philosophy, and astronomy. Greek and Latin could be added for those preparing for college. The school was formed based a bequest of $200,000 from cotton trader William Robinson. In 2020, his bequest would have a relative project worth of over $479 million.)
(Written in ink on the verso of the below CDV: Ellen L. Wentworth, May 18, 1883.)
Ellen Lang Wenworth was born 25 July 1865 in Exeter, New Hampshire, the daughter of George Albert Wentworth (1835-1906) and Emily Johnson Hatch (1842-1895). Ellen never married. She grew up in Exeter with at least two siblings. He father was a long-time professor of mathematics for Phillips Exeter Academy. Ellen first earned a BA from Smith College and then attended RFS. In censuses fom 1870 through 1840, Ellen lived in Exeter; none of the censuses listed an occupation. From 1900 through 1940, she lived with her sister Norah in Exeter. Ellen did travel extensively to Europe, both with her father and alone. (Her passport listed her as being 5' 1“ tall.) Ellen was active in the Congregationl Church and a long-time Sunday school teacher at the church. She was also president of the Current Events Club and the Thursday Circle. Ellen Wenworth died at Hobb’s Home in North Hampton on 10 August 1952.
Photographer Alfred W. Anderson was born 21 March 1838 in Canada, the son of David A. Anderson (1788-1864) and Jane Coffin (1795-1865). On 19 September 1862, Alfred enlisted in Co. G, Massachusetts 50th Infantry Regiment; he was mustered out on 24 August 1863. He was married on 23 November 1864 to Caroline “Carrie" B. Quimby (1840-1929). In 1865, Anderson was listed as a photographic artist in Haverhill, Massachusetts, although there is an earlier reference to him being a daguerreotype artist in 1862. Anderson continued to work in Haverhill until his death on 13 March 1910.
Ellen Wentworth, Class of 1883, RFS (CDV by Alfred W. Anderson, Haverhill, Massachusetts)
(When Exeter’s Robinson Female Seminary (RFS) opened in 1867, it was intended to be an adademic school similar to Phillips Exeter Academy. At the time, schools for young women tended to focus on needlework and deportment. Not so at RFS, where women were taught academic subjects only: arithmetic, mathematics, history, English grammar, botany, physiology, algebra, rhetoric, geometry, philosophy, and astronomy. Greek and Latin could be added for those preparing for college. The school was formed based a bequest of $200,000 from cotton trader William Robinson. In 2020, his bequest would have a relative project worth of over $479 million.)
(Written in ink on the verso of the below CDV: Ellen L. Wentworth, May 18, 1883.)
Ellen Lang Wenworth was born 25 July 1865 in Exeter, New Hampshire, the daughter of George Albert Wentworth (1835-1906) and Emily Johnson Hatch (1842-1895). Ellen never married. She grew up in Exeter with at least two siblings. He father was a long-time professor of mathematics for Phillips Exeter Academy. Ellen first earned a BA from Smith College and then attended RFS. In censuses fom 1870 through 1840, Ellen lived in Exeter; none of the censuses listed an occupation. From 1900 through 1940, she lived with her sister Norah in Exeter. Ellen did travel extensively to Europe, both with her father and alone. (Her passport listed her as being 5' 1“ tall.) Ellen was active in the Congregationl Church and a long-time Sunday school teacher at the church. She was also president of the Current Events Club and the Thursday Circle. Ellen Wenworth died at Hobb’s Home in North Hampton on 10 August 1952.
Photographer Alfred W. Anderson was born 21 March 1838 in Canada, the son of David A. Anderson (1788-1864) and Jane Coffin (1795-1865). On 19 September 1862, Alfred enlisted in Co. G, Massachusetts 50th Infantry Regiment; he was mustered out on 24 August 1863. He was married on 23 November 1864 to Caroline “Carrie" B. Quimby (1840-1929). In 1865, Anderson was listed as a photographic artist in Haverhill, Massachusetts, although there is an earlier reference to him being a daguerreotype artist in 1862. Anderson continued to work in Haverhill until his death on 13 March 1910.