Mount Hermon Female Seminary
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| name = Mount Hermon Female Seminary
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| caption = Mount Hermon Female Seminary (c. 1910)
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| established = 1875
| closed = 1924
| type = Private, women's seminary, HBCU
| affiliation = American Missionary Association
| city = Clinton
| state = Mississippi
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| former_names = Mount Hermon Seminary
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Mount Hermon Female Seminary (1875{{mdash}}1924) in Clinton, Mississippi was a historically black institution of higher education for women.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uT4LPyzvEWUC |title=An Era of Progress and Promise: 1863–1910 |date= |publisher=Priscilla Pub. Co. |year=1910 |editor-last=Hartshorn |editor-first=W. N. |location=Boston, MA |pages=151 |language=en |oclc=5343815 |editor-last2=Penniman |editor-first2=George W.}}
History
Founded in 1875 by Sarah Ann Dickey,{{cite book|author=Chad Chisholm|title=Clinton|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=liU17qRbwqoC&pg=PA101|access-date=25 July 2012|date=10 January 2007|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-0-7385-4354-3|page=101}} the school was patterned after Dickey's alma mater, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College).{{cite book |author=Mary Carol Miller |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a2niviowphQC&pg=PA59 |title=Lost Mansions of Mississippi |date=1 October 2010 |publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi |isbn=978-1-60473-786-8 |page=59 |access-date=25 July 2012}} The school was funded in part by the Slater Fund for the Education of Freedman from its founding until 1891.{{cite book|author1=Edward T. James|author2=Janet Wilson James|author3=Paul S. Boyer|author4=Radcliffe College|title=Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw02jame_0|url-access=registration|access-date=25 July 2012|year=1971|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-62734-5|page=[https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw02jame_0/page/474 474]}}
After Sarah Ann Dickey's death in 1903, the school was passed on to the American Missionary Association. By 1908, the Mount Hermon Female Seminary had 110 students and 6 teachers. The seminary was eventually closed in 1924 by the American Missionary Association, which had its own college in Tougaloo, Mississippi.
Notable people
- Lou Singletary Bedford (1837–?), author, poet, editor
See also
References
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Category:Historically black universities and colleges in the United States
Category:Former women's universities and colleges in the United States
Category:Defunct private universities and colleges in Mississippi
Category:Education in Hinds County, Mississippi
Category:Female seminaries in the United States
Category:Educational institutions established in 1875
Category:Educational institutions disestablished in 1924
Category:History of women in Mississippi
Category:1875 establishments in Mississippi
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