Mount Hermon Female Seminary

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.