Louisville Stoneware Mug St Mary’s Hall Doane Academy New Jersey Girls School

Description: Louisville Stoneware Mug St Mary’s Hall Doane Academy New Jersey Private School Classic Louisville Stoneware mug in blue and gray From the school’s website: “In 1836, the 37-year-old Right Reverend George Washington Doane, second Episcopal Bishop of New Jersey, purchased a large three-story building in Burlington, on the banks of the Delaware River. Bishop Doane transformed it into an Episcopal boarding school for girls, which he called Saint Mary’s Hall. It would be the first such school to educate young girls on an equal footing with the best of boys’ schools. The academic education of girls in the early 19th century was nearly non-existent, except for some private finishing schools which taught girls “proper” behavior in society and some domestic skills. Bishop Doane realized that women truly are “the corners of the temple” and that they could, with serious academic education, wisely influence the character of young people, as well as their husbands and others, and hence the future of the nation. It was a revolutionary concept, and one that was scoffed-at in some newspaper editorials of the time. Bishop Doane raised capital for the new school by issuing shares of stock. A severe financial depression hit the United States just as St. Mary's school was opening and the money needed to run the school dried up. Saint Mary’s Hall carried on though, financed mainly through the personal funds of Eliza Green Perkins Doane, Bishop Doane’s wife. She dedicated the whole of a $9500 annual dowry, received from the estate of her late first husband, to the bishop’s vision, and saved the school.” Measures approx 4” tall x 4.75” wide w/ handle Weighs 15oz before packaging

Price: 22 USD

Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

End Time: 2024-08-19T18:42:35.000Z

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