Mount Hermon Female Seminary
Mount Hermon Female Seminary (c. 1910)
Former names	Mount Hermon Seminary
Type	Private, women's seminary, HBCU
Active	1875–1924
Affiliation	American Missionary Association
Location	Clinton , Mississippi , United States

Mount Hermon Female Seminary (1875—1924) in Clinton, Mississippi was a historically black institution of higher education for women.^[1]

History

Founded in 1875 by Sarah Ann Dickey,^[2] the school was patterned after Dickey's alma mater, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College).^[3] The school was funded in part by the Slater Fund for the Education of Freedman from its founding until 1891.^[4]

After Sarah Ann Dickey's death in 1903, the school was passed on to the American Missionary Association.^[1] By 1908, the Mount Hermon Female Seminary had 110 students and 6 teachers.^[1] The seminary was eventually closed in 1924 by the American Missionary Association, which had its own college in Tougaloo, Mississippi.^[4]

Notable people

Lou Singletary Bedford (1837–?), author, poet, editor

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Hartshorn, W. N.; Penniman, George W., eds. (1910). An Era of Progress and Promise: 1863–1910. Boston, MA: Priscilla Pub. Co. p. 151. OCLC 5343815.
^ Chad Chisholm (10 January 2007). Clinton. Arcadia Publishing. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-7385-4354-3. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
^ Mary Carol Miller (1 October 2010). Lost Mansions of Mississippi. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 59. ISBN 978-1-60473-786-8. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
^ ^a ^b Edward T. James; Janet Wilson James; Paul S. Boyer; Radcliffe College (1971). Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary. Harvard University Press. p. 474. ISBN 978-0-674-62734-5. Retrieved 25 July 2012.

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