From a 1983 Ramsey County Historical Society and Saint Paul Heritage Preservation Commission Historic Sites Survey: Significant details: “Box-like dormitory building with first floor faced with stone, upper floors faces with brick. Widely spaced windows. Double door entrances on north and south facades.” Significant site and landscape features:…
Posts Tagged with Emily Robertson Sorin Meredith
Emily and Frederick in Bannack City
The year following her graduation in 1869, Emily R. Sorin married Frederick A. Meredith. Frederick did not enlist in the war; instead, the Merediths headed West to territorial Idaho and Montana. They spent the winter of 1862-1863 in the boomtown of Bannack City. A small collection of Emily’s letters…
Happy 162nd Birthday Hamline University!
On March 3, 1854, Minnesota’s Territorial Legislative Assembly approved An Act to Incorporate the Hamline University of Minnesota. Thus Hamline University was established as “an institution of learning for the education of youth of both sexes” – making it among the first dozen truly coeducational colleges in the United…
“To add a glory … To the common life” – Nineteenth Century Methodism and Women’s Collegiate Education
Did you know that the first women in Minnesota to earn college degrees were Methodist Episcopal women who used their education for lives of service and social justice? In this video lecture, I discuss Methodist Episcopal attitudes toward women and collegiate education, especially as they took shape among those living…