Ida M. Eliot
Ida M. Eliot | |
|---|---|
| Born | Ida Mitchel Eliot October 9, 1836 |
| Died | 1923 |
| Occupation(s) | Educator, feminist |
| Parent | Thomas D. Eliot |
Ida M. Eliot (October 9, 1839 – 1923) was an American writer, educator, philosopher, and entomologist who published one of the first books on caterpillars, Caterpillars and Their Moths (1902), with Caroline Soule.
Early life and career
[edit ]Eliot was born in October 9, 1839 in New Bedford, Massachusetts to Congressman Thomas D. Eliot and Frances Brock Eliot.[1] Eliot graduated from the Salem Normal School (now Salem State University) in Salem, Massachusetts. Eliot then moved to St. Louis, Missouri where her uncle, William Greenleaf Eliot, was a prominent minister and philanthropist. She earned a Missouri Teacher's Certificate in 1864,[1] and after the Civil War, Eliot founded a school for freed African American students in a church basement in St. Louis.[2] She served as assistant principal of the St. Louis Normal School (now Harris-Stowe State College) under her close friend, Anna Brackett. Eliot and Brackett associated with the St. Louis Hegelians, and both women later published philosophical works.[3] In 1872, when Anna Brackett resigned as principal, Eliot moved with Brackett to New York City. With Brackett, Eliot adopted a three-year-old daughter, Hope Davison, in 1873 and a second daughter, Bertha Lincoln, in 1875. In 1872, while in New York, Brackett and Eliot started The Brackett School for Girls,[1] located at 9 West 39th Street, and they hired female teachers such as Mary Mitchell Birchall, the first woman to receive a bachelor's degree from a New England college.[4] Eliot's adopted daughter, Hope, went on to graduate from college.[5] By 1900, Ida had moved back to New Bedford with her daughter, Ida, and sister, Edith.[6] In 1923, Eliot fractured her spine, leading to her death at St. Luke's Hospital on July 2, 1923. She is buried at Oak Grove Cemetery in New Bedford, Massachusetts.[1]
Notable works
[edit ]- Poetry for Home and School (1876)
- Caterpillars and Their Moths (1902)
References
[edit ]- ^ a b c d Mink, Sarah (2021年05月10日). "Ida M. Eliot - Lighting the Way, Historic Women of the SouthCoast" . Retrieved 2025年02月02日.
- ^ Scharf, John Thomas (1883). History of Saint Louis City and County: From the Earliest Periods to the Present Day: Including Biographical Sketches of Representative Men. L. H. Everts.
- ^ Rogers 2005, p. 73-74.
- ^ The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 44, edited by Richard Watson Gilder, p.980
- ^ America's First Women Philosophers: Transplanting Hegel, 1860–1925 By Dorothy G. Rogers, pg. 82
- ^ 1900 Census accessed on https://www.familysearch.org
Bibliography
[edit ]- Rogers, Dorothy G. (2005). America's First Women Philosophers: Transplanting Hegel, 1860–1925. Continuum. ISBN 978-1-84714-300-6.