The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-18
OBITUARY..
Mrs. Emma Willard.

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Mrs Emma Willard, a more than noted teacher
and champion Of female education, died on Friday
last in Troy, New York, in the eightyfourth year Of
her age. To this estmable lady the young women
Of the present day many OF their superior edu-
cational advantages. Her birthplace was the town
OF Berlin, in the parish OF Worthington, Connect-
cut. she was born February 20, 1881. He
maiden name was Hart, and her parents
were people of great culture, under
whose guidance she laid the foundations
OF the thorough and practical knowledge which
afterwards distinguished her. She was the next to
the youngest of family Of seventeen children, and
alternately labored in her allotted place in the
family service, and engaged with assiduity in the
studies which successfully presented themselves to
her. Prominent in the family routine were readings
from standard authors during the evenings, and
many other plans for mental improvement were sue
cessfully carried out.
Miss Hart attended the village academy for two
years, ana then obtained situation as teacher in
the district schools In this position she inaugurated
many improvements, which proved of such advan-
tage to her pupils that she became noted throughout
that part of Connecticut She married DR.. John
Willard in 1So9 and abandoned the teachers calling
But in 1914 financial reverses induced her to open
girls boarding school in Mddlebury The denclen-
cles OF the course of study then pursued by all
young ladies' were early perceived by her, and she
labored earnestly to remedy the evil In this she
has greatly succeeded The present female colleges
have followed as the results OF the reforms which
she inaugurated. After four years spent in expert
menting and improving her system, she determined,
encouraged by her husband to establish female
seminary worthy OF the name, and to locate it
at Waterford. In 1918 she laid her plans,
fully matured, before Governor Clinton,
who gave the movement his heartest
sympathy and support. 1t Incorporated in 1919,
and by an act OF the Legislature received its share
Of the Literature fund. In 1920 the citizens Of
Troy offered her a building If she would remove her
school to that city. This offer she accepted and
removed thither in 1921. Her husband died in 1925,
which event threw the whole business management
of the institution upon her. She was, however,
equal to the task and continued successful in every
department down to 1888, when her and his wife
relieved her of further care.
The various works of Mrs. Willard are we'll known
throughout the land school textbooks. Her his
tories and textbook on astronomy are in general
| use. In 1916 she published work on 'The Motive
| Powers which produce the Concentration Of the
Blood" contesng successfully the fallacous theory
| OF Dr. William Harvey that the heart is the moving
force. She was then sixty years OF age Two years
later she published valuable treatise 'Respira-
| tion and its Effects"
Various literary and educational papers have been
| published by her from time to time. She has always
given LARGELY Of her to aid the cause of edu-
cation. At time she Planned and carried out the
establishment OF a school in Athens, Greece, in
which city she had become interested while on
tour in Europe. This institution was OF great us(
| in benehting the deplorable condition Of that op
| pressed country.