10 hours between New York and Montreal
In 1933, the Delaware and Hudson Railroad (you may recognize its headquarters. Or its other headquarters) could carry you from New York to Montreal, overnight or during the day, in […]
In 1933, the Delaware and Hudson Railroad (you may recognize its headquarters. Or its other headquarters) could carry you from New York to Montreal, overnight or during the day, in […]
We’ve spent most of this week looking at the good that Mrs. Russell Sage did for two well-known institutions for the education of women, the Emma Willard School and Russell […]
Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage died November 4, 1918, at the age of 90, just two years after founding Russell Sage College. Her will, which had been drawn up 10 years […]
American Biography: A New Cyclopedia has a more detailed description of the life of Margaret Olivia Slocum, who later in life became Mrs. Russell Sage and one of the nation’s […]
After almost 90 years in downtown Troy, the Emma Willard School moved out to Mount Ida, thanks to a $1 million gift from one of its graduates, Margaret Olivia Slocum […]
One of the Troy Female Seminary’s most important former students was Margaret Olivia Slocum. She is best known as Mrs. Russell Sage, for as the second wife of the Wall […]
The original Troy Female Seminary was leased from the City of Troy for 50 years, during which time it had grown from the original three-story “coffee house” building to “a […]
Despite all the superlatives garnered by Emma Willard in her lifelong dedication to the education of women and the training of teachers, it must be said, there were those who […]
In 1854, John Hart Willard was selling off the family farm on the Wynantskill in Troy. In 1838, John (with wife Sarah Lucretia Hudson) had taken over the Troy Female […]
It’s rather extraordinary that the 16th child (out of 17) of a Connecticut farmer, a female born in 1787, would become one of the leaders in women’s education. But at […]