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Pierce, Sarah, 1767-1852

 Person

Biography

Sarah Pierce, also known as Sally Pierce, was born in Litchfield, Connecticut on June 26, 1767, the youngest of the 7 children of Mary (Paterson) and John Pierce. Her mother died when she was 3 years old and her father remarried. At the death of her father, when she was fourteen, Sarah and her sister Nancy went to New York City for a formal education. In 1792 she started teaching girls in her home and by 1798 the school became so successful that an Academy building was built. Her nephew John Pierce Brace became the director in 1827, but she continued to teach, focusing on her favorite subject - history. Sarah Pierce died in Litchfield on Jan. 19, 1852 and was buried in the West Burying Ground

Citation:
Author: Lee S. Cook

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Anthony Kroll engravings

00-2002-45-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-2002-45-0
Scope and Contents

56 impressions from a steel plate engraved by Anthony Kroll, "In memory of Sarah Pierce pioneer in the higher education of women from 1792 to 1833," undated. The engraving is based on an etching by Bernhardt Wall, who based his work on an art work by James Calvert Smith.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: undated; Other: Date acquired: 04/10/1996