 1829 - 1889 (59 years) Submit Photo / Document
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| Name |
Mary Ann Brigham |
| Born |
6 Dec 1829 |
Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Library book: History of the Brigham Family |
441 |
| Occupation |
She was an educator who was the 8th President (President Elect) of Mount Holyoke College in 1889. After a teaching for a few years, she was elected President of Mount Holyoke Seminary and College in 1889, but died in a railway accident before she could take up her appointment. In 1897 a dormitory, Brigham Hall, was dedicated to her by the New York Alumnae Club, of which she had been President in her lifetime. |
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Seminary Building, Mount Holyoke, 1886.
Seminary Building, Mount Holyoke, 1886. |
| Died |
1889 |
New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut |
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Mary A Brigham Death.
Altoona Tribune, Altoona Pennsylvania, Monday, July, 1, 1889, page one. |
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Mary A Brigham Train Wreck.
Saint Louis Post Dispatch, Saint Louis, Missouri, Sunday, June 30 1889. |
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Mary A Brigham Obituary.
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, Sunday, June, 30, 1889. |
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Mary Brigham Obituary - Another Good Woman Gone.
Kingston Daily Freeman, Kingston, New York, Monday, July 1, 1889. |
| Buried |
29 Jun 1889 |
Pine Grove Cemetery, Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States |
 Siblings |
6 siblings |
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| 2. Charles Edmund Brigham, b. 3 Jul 1834, Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts , d. 23 Aug 1896, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts |
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| 3. Henry Pierpont Brigham, b. 13 Oct 1838, Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts , d. 18 Apr 1896, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts |
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| 4. Francis Augustus Brigham, b. 23 May 1841, Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts , d. 28 Dec 1841, Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts |
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| 6. Emma Augusta Brigham, b. 24 Jun 1849, Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts , d. 20 Aug 1875, Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts |
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| Person ID |
I3147 |
Nagel |
| Last Modified |
23 Feb 2016 |
| Father |
Dexter Brigham, b. 25 May 1786, Southbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts , d. 22 Dec 1870, Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts (Age 84 years) |
| Relationship |
Birth |
| Mother |
Mary Ann Gould, b. 24 Jan 1804, Eastborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts , d. 22 Aug 1889, Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts (Age 85 years) |
| Relationship |
Birth |
| Married |
1 Jan 1827 |
Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts |
| Family ID |
F870 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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 | Born - 6 Dec 1829 - Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts |
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 | Died - 1889 - New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut |
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 | Buried - 29 Jun 1889 - Pine Grove Cemetery, Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States |
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| Photos |
 | Mary Ann Brigham
The History of the Brigham Family, A Record of Several Thousand Descendants of Thomas Brigham the Emigrant, 1603-1653. By W.I. Tyler Brigham. Published by the Grafton Press, New York, 1907 |
| Documents |
 | Spread Rails.
Pittsburgh Dispatch, Sunday, June 30, 1889 page 7. |
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