Encyclopedia of Chicago: Shimer College
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Description: A concise historical article by Sarah Fenton.
In the middle of the nineteenth century, Frances Wood Shimer and Cinderella Gregory journeyed west from New York State with plans to educate the frontier. They landed in northwestern Illinois in 1853 and founded Mt. Carroll Seminary, one of the nation's first preparatory academies for women. Early course catalogs list home economics and etiquette classes alongside “intellectual mathematics” and the study of electricity. In 1896, now 70 years old and seeking to ensure her school's survival, Frances Shimer allied it to the
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| Date | Creation Date: 1997-06-20T04:00:00Z Expiry Date: 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z |