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	+ '''Mary Raymond''', born in Penfield, attended the Le Roy NY Female Seminary, later [wiki:wikipedia:Ingham_University]. + ''"During her time at school, Mary wrote a series of letters to her mother describing her time at school. These letters are now in the archives at the ["Strong National Museum of Play"]''" + ... Mary lived at the ["Samuel Rich House"] on ["Five Mile Line Road"] in Penfield and is buried in Plot 281 of the ["Oakwood Cemetery"] in Penfield.[[Footnote(Wikpedia article)]] + + See the full Wikipedia article for details of the information found in the letters, including "Women at the time", "School Life", "Health", and "Death".

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- ==Mary Raymond== - In 1851, living in [[Penfield, New York]] just outside [[Rochester, New York\|Rochester]], there was a seventeen year old girl named Mary Raymond. She lived with her mother and brother. In May of that year, Mary Raymond attended a female seminary school in [[Le Roy, New York]]. During her time at school, Mary wrote a series of letters to her mother describing her time at school. These letters are now in the archives at the [[Strong National Museum of Play]].<ref name="letters">{{Cite book \|last=Raymond \|first=Mary \|authorlink=Mary Raymond \|title=Transcription of Raymond Letters \|year=1850-1851}}</ref> - - ==Women at the time== - The role of women during Mary Raymond’s time was simultaneously limited and influential. Women were beginning to be educated at this time, but this education was to better a woman in her role as a wife and mother. Women were seen as the vessels of piety and morality, whose goal was to reform her husband and instill good, Christian values in her children. - Women were receiving more education than before. The ideals brought about by the [[Second Great Awakening]], that a woman was a teacher and a cultivator of Christian values within her family, opened doors for women’s education. Female seminaries came about in 1791 with Sarah Pierce’s “respectable academy” in [[Litchfield, Connecticut]] and diversified from there. The seminaries taught subjects similar to those taught at men’s colleges, for example: botany, rhetoric, languages, and arithmetic. Co-education and women’s colleges were just coming to fruition with the opening of [[Oberlin College]] to women in 1833. Teaching was a respectable job for a woman, especially a woman with no husband or family ([[spinster]]). <ref name="women2">{{Cite web \|url=http://www.policy.hu/slantcheva/WomenEducation.html \|title=Women in American Higher Education \|accessdate=April 19, 2010}}</ref> Yet still, education was viewed as a means for a woman to better deal with the roles in her family. - Women had prominent roles in antislavery campaigns at this time, likely stemming from the belief that slavery was un-Christian. However, anti-slavery gatherings brought women and men together into a should-be level playing field. For example, female delegates at an anti-slavery convention in 1840 were not permitted to take their seats. <ref name="women1">{{Cite web \|last1=Pugh \|first1=Martin \|title=The Women's Movement: 1850-1939 \|work=History Review}}</ref> This blatant injustice caused many women to question the logic behind the limitations (social and political) that went along with being a woman at that time. To put this movement into perspective with the time, the [[Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention]] was held in 1848, in a town not too far from Mary Raymond. - Though women were beginning to protest their roles, for the most part they embraced the opportunity to raise children with more care and warmth than in decades past. Though mortality rates were still high, women bore fewer children during their lifetime and put more effort into loving and disciplining them than mothers in the past. Overall, though women were joining reform movements, receiving education, and working (only as teachers, domestic workers, or factor laborers), the predominant view of a woman’s role in the 1850’s was “To give domestic life its sweetest charm/ With softness polish and with virtue warm/ With angel kindness should behold distress/ And meekly pity where she cant redress.” - - ==House== - Mary Raymond lived at the [[Samuel Rich House]] in Penfield, New York. The Samuel Rich House has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1987.<ref name="samuelrich">{{Cite web \|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=4083 \|title=Samuel Rich House Nomination Form \|accessdate=April 20, 2010}}</ref><ref name="samuelrich2">{{Cite web \|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=4085 \|title=Samuel Rich House Photographs \|accessdate=April 20, 2010}}</ref> - - ==Le Roy Female Seminary== - Mary Raymond attended the Leroy Female Seminary in Le Roy, New York, which is today called the [[Ingham University]].<ref name="leroy">{{Cite web \|url=http://genesee.bettysgenealogy.org/leroysem.htm \|title=Catalogue and Circular of the Le Roy Female Seminary \|accessdate=April 20, 2010}}</ref> - - ===School Life=== - School life in the time around the 1850’s can easily be comparable to school today- minus a few technological advances. For example in Mary Raymond’s letter to her mother and sister she often complained about fashion, food and the courses she had to take. Mary Raymond always wanted better clothes- she had to keep up with the other girls at school- definitely something that is still apparent in today’s world. As for food, meals were very different because of the lack of resources they had available to them. Meals were very simple and day to day Mary Raymond complained of the lack of variety and flavor. Yet the most different aspect of school life had to be the courses- the purpose of the girl’s education. - Today women are empowered; we choose which classes we want to take- and which career path we want to take. In the 1850’s, girls were sent away to school to learn how to become “proper young ladies”. One school for example was the [[Spingler Institute for Young Ladies]] which was located in New York City, this school’s mission was to educate girls "by methods of thorough mental development and discipline in elementary studies, by a systematic and progressive course of higher instruction, and suitable attention to physical education, to give the varied mental and moral powers appropriate and symmetrical culture.”<ref name="boardingsch">{{Cite web \|url=http://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?PAGE=2467 \|last1=Pease \|first1=Jane \|title=Boarding School, 1850 Style \|location=River Campus Libraries}}</ref> Therefore girls had to attend a structured school life- focused around education and mental development, rather than a focus on fun and life experiences. - The institutes were not strict all through the years though, once girls became upperclassmen they were given the ability to pick and choose different classes they wanted to take. At Spingler, older girls could choose between natural, mental, and moral philosophy, rhetoric, logic, aesthetics, algebra, geometry, and chemistry.<ref name="boardingsch"></ref> Allowing choices pleased the girls, especially when they were allowed to take music classes. - As far as recreation, extracurricular activities and fashion goes- girl enjoyed them in the 1850’s just as much as they do today. Mary Raymond and the Schermerhorn girls were frequently writing home asking permission to purchase new dresses and bonnets- it was important for them to keep up with their schoolmates. However the most interesting connection I see is the way the girls acted. They would leave school without permission, stay out past their curfews, beg to go on field trips, obsesses over cute boys and overall they really seemed to act like high school/college girls. Therefore I would have to say although technology advances and affects our lives, the true human nature shines through from 1850 to 2010. <ref name="boardingsch"></ref> - - ==Health== - From Mary’s letters it was easy to see that health and hygiene in the 19th century wasn’t what it is today. Mary noted that her and many other girls had bed bugs infesting their beds, but this appeared to be common and so the boarding school did nothing of it. She also commented on the fact that she could wipe the dirt off the “clean” plates the school served dinner on. Another indicator of poor health was all the talk of family members or friends coming down with illnesses. Talk of remedies such as “the cold water cure” or wormwood tea gives an idea of why it was hard to help the sickly.<ref name="letters"></ref> - - ==Death== - Mary Ann Raymond died in 1853 due to complications from [[erysipelas]] which is an acute streptococcus bacterial infection of the skin. Areas of the skin, often on the face, become swollen, tender, and red. This is sometimes accompanied by high fever and feelings of general illness. When left untreated, blood poisoning could occur. Erysipelas was highly contagious and life threatening before the use of antibiotics.<ref name="erypsipelas">{{Cite web \|url=http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_hl_dorlands_split.jsp?pg=/ppdocs/us/common/dorlands/dorland/three/000036667.htm \|title=Erysipelas \|accessdate=April 20, 2010}}</ref><ref name="cellulitis">{{Cite web \|url=http://www.skincarenet.org/cellulitis-erysipelas.html \|title=Cellulitis and erysipelas \|accessdate=April 20, 2010}}</ref> - - These symptoms were described in a letter from Mary A. Wright, a staff member at the Le Roy Female Seminary, to Mary’s mother. The erysipelas had “appeared on her face” but was “evidently rebuked” and “on the decline." Mary had “complained of the head-ache” before visual symptoms were present. In the letter, Wright was optimistic about Mary’s recovery and believed she would “soon be in better health” than when she arrived at the school. - - Mary was buried at Oakwood Cemetery in Penfield, New York on March 24th, 1853. The plot number is 281 B.<ref name="grave">{{Cite web \|url=http://mcnygenealogy.com/cem/oakwood-11.htm \|title=Burials in Oakwood Cemetery \|accessdate=April 20, 2010}}</ref>

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	+ ## Use this template for pages of public persons or figures, not normally for User Pages + ## Tables have to all be on one row. + \|\|<class="tablehead">'''Birth name''' \|\|\|\|<class="tablehead">'''Aliases'''\|\| + \|\|Mary Raymond \|\| \|\| None \|\| + \|\|<class="tablehead">'''Birth date'''\|\| \|\|<class="tablehead">'''Birth place'''\|\| + \|\|1834\|\| \|\|Penfield, NY USA\|\| + \|\|<class="tablehead">'''Date of death'''\|\| \|\|<class="tablehead">'''Place of death'''\|\| + \|\|March 24, 1853\|\| \|\|Le Roy Female Seminary\|\| + ## leave a blank line here (starts a new narrow table + + \|\|<class="tablehead">'''Known for'''\|\| + \|\|published letters\|\| + \|\|<class="tablehead">'''Occupation(s)'''\|\| + \|\|Student\|\| + ## Use the following format for website or remove this section if no website is available + + ==Mary Raymond== + In 1851, living in [[Penfield, New York]] just outside [[Rochester, New York\|Rochester]], there was a seventeen year old girl named Mary Raymond. She lived with her mother and brother. In May of that year, Mary Raymond attended a female seminary school in [[Le Roy, New York]]. During her time at school, Mary wrote a series of letters to her mother describing her time at school. These letters are now in the archives at the [[Strong National Museum of Play]].<ref name="letters">{{Cite book \|last=Raymond \|first=Mary \|authorlink=Mary Raymond \|title=Transcription of Raymond Letters \|year=1850-1851}}</ref> + + ==Women at the time== + The role of women during Mary Raymond’s time was simultaneously limited and influential. Women were beginning to be educated at this time, but this education was to better a woman in her role as a wife and mother. Women were seen as the vessels of piety and morality, whose goal was to reform her husband and instill good, Christian values in her children. + Women were receiving more education than before. The ideals brought about by the [[Second Great Awakening]], that a woman was a teacher and a cultivator of Christian values within her family, opened doors for women’s education. Female seminaries came about in 1791 with Sarah Pierce’s “respectable academy” in [[Litchfield, Connecticut]] and diversified from there. The seminaries taught subjects similar to those taught at men’s colleges, for example: botany, rhetoric, languages, and arithmetic. Co-education and women’s colleges were just coming to fruition with the opening of [[Oberlin College]] to women in 1833. Teaching was a respectable job for a woman, especially a woman with no husband or family ([[spinster]]). <ref name="women2">{{Cite web \|url=http://www.policy.hu/slantcheva/WomenEducation.html \|title=Women in American Higher Education \|accessdate=April 19, 2010}}</ref> Yet still, education was viewed as a means for a woman to better deal with the roles in her family. + Women had prominent roles in antislavery campaigns at this time, likely stemming from the belief that slavery was un-Christian. However, anti-slavery gatherings brought women and men together into a should-be level playing field. For example, female delegates at an anti-slavery convention in 1840 were not permitted to take their seats. <ref name="women1">{{Cite web \|last1=Pugh \|first1=Martin \|title=The Women's Movement: 1850-1939 \|work=History Review}}</ref> This blatant injustice caused many women to question the logic behind the limitations (social and political) that went along with being a woman at that time. To put this movement into perspective with the time, the [[Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention]] was held in 1848, in a town not too far from Mary Raymond. + Though women were beginning to protest their roles, for the most part they embraced the opportunity to raise children with more care and warmth than in decades past. Though mortality rates were still high, women bore fewer children during their lifetime and put more effort into loving and disciplining them than mothers in the past. Overall, though women were joining reform movements, receiving education, and working (only as teachers, domestic workers, or factor laborers), the predominant view of a woman’s role in the 1850’s was “To give domestic life its sweetest charm/ With softness polish and with virtue warm/ With angel kindness should behold distress/ And meekly pity where she cant redress.” + + ==House== + Mary Raymond lived at the [[Samuel Rich House]] in Penfield, New York. The Samuel Rich House has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1987.<ref name="samuelrich">{{Cite web \|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=4083 \|title=Samuel Rich House Nomination Form \|accessdate=April 20, 2010}}</ref><ref name="samuelrich2">{{Cite web \|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=4085 \|title=Samuel Rich House Photographs \|accessdate=April 20, 2010}}</ref> + + ==Le Roy Female Seminary== + Mary Raymond attended the Leroy Female Seminary in Le Roy, New York, which is today called the [[Ingham University]].<ref name="leroy">{{Cite web \|url=http://genesee.bettysgenealogy.org/leroysem.htm \|title=Catalogue and Circular of the Le Roy Female Seminary \|accessdate=April 20, 2010}}</ref> + + ===School Life=== + School life in the time around the 1850’s can easily be comparable to school today- minus a few technological advances. For example in Mary Raymond’s letter to her mother and sister she often complained about fashion, food and the courses she had to take. Mary Raymond always wanted better clothes- she had to keep up with the other girls at school- definitely something that is still apparent in today’s world. As for food, meals were very different because of the lack of resources they had available to them. Meals were very simple and day to day Mary Raymond complained of the lack of variety and flavor. Yet the most different aspect of school life had to be the courses- the purpose of the girl’s education. + Today women are empowered; we choose which classes we want to take- and which career path we want to take. In the 1850’s, girls were sent away to school to learn how to become “proper young ladies”. One school for example was the [[Spingler Institute for Young Ladies]] which was located in New York City, this school’s mission was to educate girls "by methods of thorough mental development and discipline in elementary studies, by a systematic and progressive course of higher instruction, and suitable attention to physical education, to give the varied mental and moral powers appropriate and symmetrical culture.”<ref name="boardingsch">{{Cite web \|url=http://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?PAGE=2467 \|last1=Pease \|first1=Jane \|title=Boarding School, 1850 Style \|location=River Campus Libraries}}</ref> Therefore girls had to attend a structured school life- focused around education and mental development, rather than a focus on fun and life experiences. + The institutes were not strict all through the years though, once girls became upperclassmen they were given the ability to pick and choose different classes they wanted to take. At Spingler, older girls could choose between natural, mental, and moral philosophy, rhetoric, logic, aesthetics, algebra, geometry, and chemistry.<ref name="boardingsch"></ref> Allowing choices pleased the girls, especially when they were allowed to take music classes. + As far as recreation, extracurricular activities and fashion goes- girl enjoyed them in the 1850’s just as much as they do today. Mary Raymond and the Schermerhorn girls were frequently writing home asking permission to purchase new dresses and bonnets- it was important for them to keep up with their schoolmates. However the most interesting connection I see is the way the girls acted. They would leave school without permission, stay out past their curfews, beg to go on field trips, obsesses over cute boys and overall they really seemed to act like high school/college girls. Therefore I would have to say although technology advances and affects our lives, the true human nature shines through from 1850 to 2010. <ref name="boardingsch"></ref> + + ==Health== + From Mary’s letters it was easy to see that health and hygiene in the 19th century wasn’t what it is today. Mary noted that her and many other girls had bed bugs infesting their beds, but this appeared to be common and so the boarding school did nothing of it. She also commented on the fact that she could wipe the dirt off the “clean” plates the school served dinner on. Another indicator of poor health was all the talk of family members or friends coming down with illnesses. Talk of remedies such as “the cold water cure” or wormwood tea gives an idea of why it was hard to help the sickly.<ref name="letters"></ref> + + ==Death== + Mary Ann Raymond died in 1853 due to complications from [[erysipelas]] which is an acute streptococcus bacterial infection of the skin. Areas of the skin, often on the face, become swollen, tender, and red. This is sometimes accompanied by high fever and feelings of general illness. When left untreated, blood poisoning could occur. Erysipelas was highly contagious and life threatening before the use of antibiotics.<ref name="erypsipelas">{{Cite web \|url=http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_hl_dorlands_split.jsp?pg=/ppdocs/us/common/dorlands/dorland/three/000036667.htm \|title=Erysipelas \|accessdate=April 20, 2010}}</ref><ref name="cellulitis">{{Cite web \|url=http://www.skincarenet.org/cellulitis-erysipelas.html \|title=Cellulitis and erysipelas \|accessdate=April 20, 2010}}</ref> + + These symptoms were described in a letter from Mary A. Wright, a staff member at the Le Roy Female Seminary, to Mary’s mother. The erysipelas had “appeared on her face” but was “evidently rebuked” and “on the decline." Mary had “complained of the head-ache” before visual symptoms were present. In the letter, Wright was optimistic about Mary’s recovery and believed she would “soon be in better health” than when she arrived at the school. + + Mary was buried at Oakwood Cemetery in Penfield, New York on March 24th, 1853. The plot number is 281 B.<ref name="grave">{{Cite web \|url=http://mcnygenealogy.com/cem/oakwood-11.htm \|title=Burials in Oakwood Cemetery \|accessdate=April 20, 2010}}</ref> + + + [[Comments]]