Daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Powers Whiting.
Older sister of Daniel Powers Whiting - our great, great, grandfather.
Elizabeth and her sister Mary were baptized on March 20, 1808 in the First Presbyterian Church of Troy, NY.
The following came from the papers of Elizabeth Whiting following a visit she made to Middletown, CT when she was about three years old:
"I was taken to the house of my great-grandfather, Mr Gilbert. He was a very old man, 93 years old and totally blind. I recollect that his hair was very white and long. I can also remember a large, clean kitchen, and a bright, blazing wood-fire, and a clean little bedroom at one end where the old man lay. I was lifted on the bed, and he sat up in bed and put his hands on my head and blessed me."
"It was said Elizabeth was one of the best educated, most accomplished and handsome and she spent forty years of her life as an inmate of an asylum for the insane. But she was always happy and much loved so that the old man's blessing may have been fruitful."
Elizabeth was an assistant music teacher at The Troy Female Seminary, now Emma Willard School, one of the finest schools for girls in the US, when it began in 1821.
Emma was able to formally found the Troy Female Seminary "for young ladies of means", becoming "the first school in the country to provide girls the same educational opportunities given to boys". From its establishment in 1821 to 1872, the seminary admitted 12,000 students. The Troy Female Seminary promoted the education of young girls as well as women teachers in training. The seminary provided tuition on credit for students who could not afford with the agreement that those students would be teaching assistants and eventually become teachers themselves.[2]This type of on-credit tuition led to the growing reputation of the Troy Female Seminary as the demand for female teachers increased during the eighteenth century. Emma Willard advocated publicly supported female seminaries by asserting the necessity of educating as many women as possible in the United States -- a task, she pointed out, that was too large for private institutions alone to undertake. Willard also promoted educational reform by emphasizing that women were capable of intellectual evidence in any field and demanded that women be trained for professions.
Source: Rensselaer County Historical Society
From a letter Elizabeth wrote to her brother, William Bradford Whiting, on May 9, 1831. At the time, William was a mid-shipman at the Naval Academy in Philadelphia.
"Now, in thy youth, beseech of Him
who giveth, up braiding not,
That His love in thy heart
become not dim, and His name be not forgot;
Any thy God in the darkest days shall be
Greenness, and beauty, and strength to thee"
Elizabeth Gilbert Whiting was a patient at the Hartford Retreat Insane Asylum when she wrote the letter to her brother, William.
Elizabeth Gilbert Whiting is listed in the 1850, 1860 and 1870 US Census as a resident of the New York Asylum for the Insane, Utica, NY.
Older sister of Daniel Powers Whiting - our great, great, grandfather.
Elizabeth and her sister Mary were baptized on March 20, 1808 in the First Presbyterian Church of Troy, NY.
The following came from the papers of Elizabeth Whiting following a visit she made to Middletown, CT when she was about three years old:
"I was taken to the house of my great-grandfather, Mr Gilbert. He was a very old man, 93 years old and totally blind. I recollect that his hair was very white and long. I can also remember a large, clean kitchen, and a bright, blazing wood-fire, and a clean little bedroom at one end where the old man lay. I was lifted on the bed, and he sat up in bed and put his hands on my head and blessed me."
"It was said Elizabeth was one of the best educated, most accomplished and handsome and she spent forty years of her life as an inmate of an asylum for the insane. But she was always happy and much loved so that the old man's blessing may have been fruitful."
Elizabeth was an assistant music teacher at The Troy Female Seminary, now Emma Willard School, one of the finest schools for girls in the US, when it began in 1821.
Emma was able to formally found the Troy Female Seminary "for young ladies of means", becoming "the first school in the country to provide girls the same educational opportunities given to boys". From its establishment in 1821 to 1872, the seminary admitted 12,000 students. The Troy Female Seminary promoted the education of young girls as well as women teachers in training. The seminary provided tuition on credit for students who could not afford with the agreement that those students would be teaching assistants and eventually become teachers themselves.[2]This type of on-credit tuition led to the growing reputation of the Troy Female Seminary as the demand for female teachers increased during the eighteenth century. Emma Willard advocated publicly supported female seminaries by asserting the necessity of educating as many women as possible in the United States -- a task, she pointed out, that was too large for private institutions alone to undertake. Willard also promoted educational reform by emphasizing that women were capable of intellectual evidence in any field and demanded that women be trained for professions.
Source: Rensselaer County Historical Society
From a letter Elizabeth wrote to her brother, William Bradford Whiting, on May 9, 1831. At the time, William was a mid-shipman at the Naval Academy in Philadelphia.
"Now, in thy youth, beseech of Him
who giveth, up braiding not,
That His love in thy heart
become not dim, and His name be not forgot;
Any thy God in the darkest days shall be
Greenness, and beauty, and strength to thee"
Elizabeth Gilbert Whiting was a patient at the Hartford Retreat Insane Asylum when she wrote the letter to her brother, William.
Elizabeth Gilbert Whiting is listed in the 1850, 1860 and 1870 US Census as a resident of the New York Asylum for the Insane, Utica, NY.
Daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Powers Whiting.
Older sister of Daniel Powers Whiting - our great, great, grandfather.
Elizabeth and her sister Mary were baptized on March 20, 1808 in the First Presbyterian Church of Troy, NY.
The following came from the papers of Elizabeth Whiting following a visit she made to Middletown, CT when she was about three years old:
"I was taken to the house of my great-grandfather, Mr Gilbert. He was a very old man, 93 years old and totally blind. I recollect that his hair was very white and long. I can also remember a large, clean kitchen, and a bright, blazing wood-fire, and a clean little bedroom at one end where the old man lay. I was lifted on the bed, and he sat up in bed and put his hands on my head and blessed me."
"It was said Elizabeth was one of the best educated, most accomplished and handsome and she spent forty years of her life as an inmate of an asylum for the insane. But she was always happy and much loved so that the old man's blessing may have been fruitful."
Elizabeth was an assistant music teacher at The Troy Female Seminary, now Emma Willard School, one of the finest schools for girls in the US, when it began in 1821.
Emma was able to formally found the Troy Female Seminary "for young ladies of means", becoming "the first school in the country to provide girls the same educational opportunities given to boys". From its establishment in 1821 to 1872, the seminary admitted 12,000 students. The Troy Female Seminary promoted the education of young girls as well as women teachers in training. The seminary provided tuition on credit for students who could not afford with the agreement that those students would be teaching assistants and eventually become teachers themselves.[2]This type of on-credit tuition led to the growing reputation of the Troy Female Seminary as the demand for female teachers increased during the eighteenth century. Emma Willard advocated publicly supported female seminaries by asserting the necessity of educating as many women as possible in the United States -- a task, she pointed out, that was too large for private institutions alone to undertake. Willard also promoted educational reform by emphasizing that women were capable of intellectual evidence in any field and demanded that women be trained for professions.
Source: Rensselaer County Historical Society
From a letter Elizabeth wrote to her brother, William Bradford Whiting, on May 9, 1831. At the time, William was a mid-shipman at the Naval Academy in Philadelphia.
"Now, in thy youth, beseech of Him
who giveth, up braiding not,
That His love in thy heart
become not dim, and His name be not forgot;
Any thy God in the darkest days shall be
Greenness, and beauty, and strength to thee"
Elizabeth Gilbert Whiting was a patient at the Hartford Retreat Insane Asylum when she wrote the letter to her brother, William.
Elizabeth Gilbert Whiting is listed in the 1850, 1860 and 1870 US Census as a resident of the New York Asylum for the Insane, Utica, NY.
Older sister of Daniel Powers Whiting - our great, great, grandfather.
Elizabeth and her sister Mary were baptized on March 20, 1808 in the First Presbyterian Church of Troy, NY.
The following came from the papers of Elizabeth Whiting following a visit she made to Middletown, CT when she was about three years old:
"I was taken to the house of my great-grandfather, Mr Gilbert. He was a very old man, 93 years old and totally blind. I recollect that his hair was very white and long. I can also remember a large, clean kitchen, and a bright, blazing wood-fire, and a clean little bedroom at one end where the old man lay. I was lifted on the bed, and he sat up in bed and put his hands on my head and blessed me."
"It was said Elizabeth was one of the best educated, most accomplished and handsome and she spent forty years of her life as an inmate of an asylum for the insane. But she was always happy and much loved so that the old man's blessing may have been fruitful."
Elizabeth was an assistant music teacher at The Troy Female Seminary, now Emma Willard School, one of the finest schools for girls in the US, when it began in 1821.
Emma was able to formally found the Troy Female Seminary "for young ladies of means", becoming "the first school in the country to provide girls the same educational opportunities given to boys". From its establishment in 1821 to 1872, the seminary admitted 12,000 students. The Troy Female Seminary promoted the education of young girls as well as women teachers in training. The seminary provided tuition on credit for students who could not afford with the agreement that those students would be teaching assistants and eventually become teachers themselves.[2]This type of on-credit tuition led to the growing reputation of the Troy Female Seminary as the demand for female teachers increased during the eighteenth century. Emma Willard advocated publicly supported female seminaries by asserting the necessity of educating as many women as possible in the United States -- a task, she pointed out, that was too large for private institutions alone to undertake. Willard also promoted educational reform by emphasizing that women were capable of intellectual evidence in any field and demanded that women be trained for professions.
Source: Rensselaer County Historical Society
From a letter Elizabeth wrote to her brother, William Bradford Whiting, on May 9, 1831. At the time, William was a mid-shipman at the Naval Academy in Philadelphia.
"Now, in thy youth, beseech of Him
who giveth, up braiding not,
That His love in thy heart
become not dim, and His name be not forgot;
Any thy God in the darkest days shall be
Greenness, and beauty, and strength to thee"
Elizabeth Gilbert Whiting was a patient at the Hartford Retreat Insane Asylum when she wrote the letter to her brother, William.
Elizabeth Gilbert Whiting is listed in the 1850, 1860 and 1870 US Census as a resident of the New York Asylum for the Insane, Utica, NY.
