842:
228:
physical education in the
Swedish system not only for primary schools but also in colleges and universities at a time when very few women had positions in higher education. Physical training was led by Claes J. Enebuske with later additions of faculty from Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, and MIT to teach science, chemistry, anatomy and biology, and theoretical courses. In addition to the Swedish system of physical culture, students also learned various physical games such as basketball and field hockey, and dance training under Melvin Gilbert. Graduates moved on to teach at Smith College, Hampton Institute, Drexel Institute, Radcliffe, Bryn Mawr, Wellesley College, and YMCA's. By 1906, 369 students had graduated from BNSG before the school was incorporated into
176:
Hampton, and agricultural training. The property had a mansion house, guest cottage, large dairy barn, experimental gardens, and a wide range of livestock. The
Vanisons, two black graduates of Hampton, were placed in charge; they worked and ran the farm and taught night school for students who worked on the farm. Hemenway also helped finance (among others)
90:(December 20, 1820 â March 6, 1894) was an American philanthropist. She funded Civil War hospitals, numerous educational institutions from the Reconstruction era until the late 1880s, founded a physical education teacher training program for women, and funded research for the preservation of culturally valuable historical sites.
227:
In 1889 Hemenway also established the Boston Normal School of
Gymnastics (BNSG) under the appointed Director Amy Morris Homans. In 1892 there were 12 women graduates, the first of what would become hundreds of trained teachers. The school was dedicated to training women for the profession of teaching
223:
In 1889 Hemenway and her assistant Amy Morris Homans organized and promoted a
Conference on Physical Training in a hall at MIT. Conference attendees included established national authorities, the Boston School Committee, local Boston college Presidents, and physicians. Lectures spoke to the German,
207:
who gave the expedition equipment to create recordings. Studies she funded on their culture were gathered into five volumes in the
Journal of American Archaeology and Ethnology, published at her own expense. Archaeological items that were gathered in the Southwest were displayed in 1892 in Madrid,
187:
In 1885, to help develop industrial skills for girls, Hemenway funded a two year training program for sewing and cooking classes in Boston. She financed the first kitchen in a public school in the United States, known as the Boston School
Kitchen. She then established the Boston Normal School of
175:
Around 1877, Hemenway bought a farm near
Hampton Institute, 'Canebrakes' and some years later another farm 'Shellbanks' (a former plantation) to donate a total of 500 acres of land to Hampton Institute. Renamed as the Hemenway Farm, this land provided food for black and indigenous students at
134:, a private relief agency to aid sick and wounded soldiers. They established and staffed hospitals, and housed recovering Union soldiers. In 1864 she donated $ 25,000 to the new Washington University in St. Louis, followed by other installments of $ 50,000 for the history department.
224:
Swedish, and
American amalgamation systems with over 2,000 attendees. Hemenway invited General Armstrong from Hampton Institute to attend. Ultimately, through her efforts promoting the Swedish system of physical culture over 60,000 Boston school children took part in daily exercise.
137:
After the Civil War, in 1867 she funded the re-opening of the Union school in
Wilmington, North Carolina with the support of the American Unitarian Association to provide free schooling for poor white children. As the executive of the Soldiers Memorial Society, Hemenway funded nurse
165:. Initially for Freedmen and women, the school later incorporated indigenous students. According to her niece, Hemenway was visited by Armstrong and his daughters many years later at her summer estate in Manchester-by-the-Sea as they were close friends.
98:
Mary
Tileston was born in New York City the daughter of Mary (nÊe Porter) and Thomas Tileston (1796-1864), a wealthy shipping merchant. She was educated in private schools. On June 25, 1840, in New York City, Tileston married Harvard graduate
161:, to create a literacy and industrial skills program for black Freedmen and women in Hampton, Virginia. Originally known as the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, it was later renamed Hampton Institute and is now known as
216:' prehistoric site in Arizona. She petitioned Congress which granted protection of the ruins as a National Monument. With collaboration from the Zuni and Hopi communities, the expedition identified the prehistoric
203:(1886-1894) which was the first major archaeological expedition undertaken in the American Southwest with a team of ten. Hemenway funded studies of Zuni and Hopi language and song with the help of
232:. A new gymnasium was built at Wellesley and named Mary Hemenway Hall. Recently a bronze relief sculptural portrait by the artist Anne Whitney of Hemenway was found in the Wellesley Archives.
199:
Indians to Boston and met with Hemenway to petition her for support. Cushing had lived amongst the Zuni for five years and had learned their language. Hemenway provided $ 100,000 for The
103:(1803â1876), a multi-millionaire Boston sea merchant some seventeen years older than her. The couple then moved to Boston to establish their family mansion at 40 Mt. Vernon Street in
114:
The couple had several children: Charlotte Augusta Hemenway (1841-1865), Alice (d. in infancy, 1845-1847), Amy Hemenway (1848-1911); and Edith (1851-1904). Their only son,
897:
857:
200:
907:
892:
372:
547:
Before Langley Air Force Base: The muddy history of Shellbacks, Sherwood and other plantations of Elizabeth County. Matt Cahill, Daily Press, June 26, 2022
209:
188:
Cookery in 1887 to train teachers. She bore all the expenses until the school was fully functioning before turning it over to the Boston School Committee.
582:
Twenty-two years' work of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute at Hampton, VA. Library of Congress collections, available through archive.org
591:
Creating a Tradition: Early Campus Planning Hampton Institute 1868-1893. PhD dissertation College of William and Mary, Susan Hicks Jones, pp.133-134
912:
146:
to be the school's administrator. Hemenway then donated $ 100,000 to fund a teacher training school, the Tileston Normal School. In Wilmington.
732:
689:
633:
512:
297:
851:
122:. After her husband died in 1876, Mary Tileston Hemenway maintained his family name until her death. She apparently inherited $ 15,000,000.
858:
https://www.historicnewengland.org/keeping-it-in-the-family-part-2-w-r-emerson-and-the-hemenway-and-eustis-families/hemenway-manchester/
213:
902:
264:
423:
331:
131:
142:
to teach. By 1871 her funding built the Hemenway school to accommodate the needs of hundreds of students. Bradley hired her niece
602:
241:
240:
Hemenway died at her home on Beacon Hill. Her memorial service was held at the Old South Meeting House. She is remembered on the
100:
71:
778:"Spears, Betty. Leading the Way: Amy Morris Homans and the Beginnings of Professional Education for Women" 1986 Greenwood Press.
455:
158:
755:
172:
in Boston from destruction after a fire in 1872. She also hired Amy Morris Homans to become her personal assistant.
169:
192:
390:
862:
415:
The descendants of Major Samuel Lawrence of Groton, Massachusetts: with some mention of allied families
809:
767:
486:
887:
882:
711:"Chronology of the Hemenway Expedition" Journal of the Southwest Vol. 37, No.4 Winter 1995, 527-534.
323:
Augustus Hemenway, 1805â1876: builder of the United States trade with the west coast of South America
220:
culture of the Southwest. Drawings of pottery from this exhibition are in the Smithsonian archives.
177:
154:
108:
557:
181:
150:
104:
502:
191:
Hemenway also made large financial contributions to American archaeology. In 1886 the ethnologist
561:
366:
162:
139:
787:"Mary Hemenway: A Woman Ahead of Her Time" Journal of Human Kinetics Vol 7, No.1, 1998, 191-209.
607:
728:
685:
679:
629:
535:
508:
419:
413:
327:
293:
287:
229:
143:
115:
722:
623:
244:. She is buried at Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, MA (Thistle Path, Lot: 1463, Space 4).
17:
846:
808:
Memorial Services in honour of Mrs. Mary Hemenway by the Boston Public School Teachers 1894
766:
Memorial Services in honour of Mrs. Mary Hemenway by the Boston Public School Teachers 1894
485:
Memorial Services in honour of Mrs. Mary Hemenway by the Boston Public School Teachers 1894
119:
212:
in the Hemenway Room. Soon after Hemenway organized for the preservation of the Hohokam '
867:
656:
876:
204:
797:
476:"Headstrong, The Biography of Amy Morris Bradley" 1990 Broadfoot Publishing 159-176.
756:
https://sova.si.edu/record/NAA.MS3427?s=0&n=10&t=C&q=New+Mexico&i=5
456:"Early Donors: Building A University, Building A Campus: Women's Financial Support"
168:
Following her husband's death in 1876, Hemenway donated $ 100,000 to help save the
501:
James, Edward T.; James, Janet Wilson; Boyer, Paul S.; Radcliffe College (1971).
321:
196:
386:
180:, a graduate of Hampton who became a principal at the teacher training school
538:
and the Beginnings of Professional Education for Women" 1986 Greenwood Press.
445:
The Part Taken by Women in American History. Mrs. John A. Logan, 1912, p.525.
418:(Public domain ed.). Printed at the Riverside press. pp. 227â.
724:
Archives, Ancestors, Practices: Archaeology in the Light of Its History
625:
Archives, Ancestors, Practices: Archaeology in the Light of Its History
217:
863:
https://www.mountauburn.org/mary-porter-tileston-hemenway-1820-1894/
359:
A Memorial of the Life and Benefactions of Mary Hemenway (1820-1894)
810:
https://archive.org/details/memorialservices00dunt/page/58/mode/2up
768:
https://archive.org/details/memorialservices00dunt/page/58/mode/2up
487:
https://archive.org/details/memorialservices00dunt/page/58/mode/2up
149:
In 1868 Hemenway helped to finance the Union Army leader General
821:
504:
Notable American Women, 1607â1950: A Biographical Dictionary
681:
New Perspectives on the Origins of Americanist Archaeology
289:
New Perspectives on the Origins of Americanist Archaeology
259:
257:
286:
Browman, David L; Williams, Stephen (19 February 2002).
678:
David L Browman; Stephen Williams (19 February 2002).
657:"Hemenway Expedition Records 1886â1914: A Finding Aid"
868:
https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2019/07/eustis-estate
77:
67:
51:
39:
32:
798:https://www.wellesley.edu/news/2015/05/node/62116
496:
494:
130:During the Civil War Hemenway helped to fund the
107:. Mary Hemenway was a member of the abolitionist
201:Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition
684:. University of Alabama Press. pp. 235â.
292:. University of Alabama Press. pp. 235â.
659:. Peabody Museum Archives, Harvard University
8:
611:. Vol. XXVII, no. 12. p. 246.
458:. University Archives, Washington University
507:. Harvard University Press. pp. 181â.
210:Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
371:: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
352:
350:
29:
898:Deaths from diabetes in the United States
721:Nathan Schlanger; Jarl Nordbladh (2008).
622:Nathan Schlanger; Jarl Nordbladh (2008).
843:Works by or about Mary Tileston Hemenway
253:
364:
320:Eustis, Frederic A. (1 January 1955).
908:19th-century American philanthropists
893:Philanthropists from New York (state)
7:
754:Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives
727:. Berghahn Books. pp. 37, 38â.
601:White, Sallie Joy (March 24, 1894).
27:American philanthropist (1820â1894)
25:
534:"Spears, Betty. Leading the Way:
208:and at Harvard University in the
628:. Berghahn Books. pp. 37â.
101:Edward Augustus Holyoke Hemenway
72:Edward Augustus Holyoke Hemenway
913:People from Beacon Hill, Boston
412:Lawrence, Robert Means (1904).
387:"Alice's Fountain Commissioned"
265:"Mary Porter Tileston Hemenway"
852:Mary Tileson Hemenway Portrait
357:Tileston, Mary Wilder (1927).
326:. Peabody Museum. p. 80.
1:
826:Boston Women's Heritage Trail
242:Boston Women's Heritage Trail
111:'s Church of the Disciples.
88:Mary Porter Tileston Hemenway
18:Mary Porter Tileston Hemenway
159:United States Colored Troops
929:
157:, who had served with the
903:People from New York City
603:"The Late Mrs. Hemenway"
267:. Harvard Square Library
566:The American Missionary
170:Old South Meeting House
62:Beacon Hill, Boston, MA
193:Frank Hamilton Cushing
34:Mary Tileston Hemenway
391:Mount Auburn Cemetery
184:established in 1881.
118:(1853â1931), married
558:Armstrong, Samuel C.
178:Booker T. Washington
109:James Freeman Clarke
854:, Wellesley College
562:"The Hemenway Farm"
151:Samuel C. Armstrong
132:Sanitary Commission
182:Tuskegee Institute
163:Hampton University
140:Amy Morris Bradley
734:978-1-84545-066-3
691:978-0-8173-1128-5
635:978-1-84545-066-3
560:(February 1883).
536:Amy Morris Homans
514:978-0-674-62734-5
299:978-0-8173-1128-5
230:Wellesley College
155:Freedmen's Bureau
144:Amy Morris Homans
85:
84:
43:December 20, 1820
16:(Redirected from
920:
847:Internet Archive
830:
829:
818:
812:
806:
800:
796:The Female Gaze
794:
788:
785:
779:
776:
770:
764:
758:
752:
746:
745:
743:
741:
718:
712:
709:
703:
702:
700:
698:
675:
669:
668:
666:
664:
653:
647:
646:
644:
642:
619:
613:
612:
598:
592:
589:
583:
580:
574:
573:
554:
548:
545:
539:
532:
526:
525:
523:
521:
498:
489:
483:
477:
474:
468:
467:
465:
463:
452:
446:
443:
437:
436:
434:
432:
409:
403:
402:
400:
398:
393:. April 24, 2013
383:
377:
376:
370:
362:
354:
345:
344:
342:
340:
317:
311:
310:
308:
306:
283:
277:
276:
274:
272:
261:
236:Death and legacy
120:Harriet Lawrence
58:
30:
21:
928:
927:
923:
922:
921:
919:
918:
917:
873:
872:
839:
834:
833:
820:
819:
815:
807:
803:
795:
791:
786:
782:
777:
773:
765:
761:
753:
749:
739:
737:
735:
720:
719:
715:
710:
706:
696:
694:
692:
677:
676:
672:
662:
660:
655:
654:
650:
640:
638:
636:
621:
620:
616:
608:Harper's Bazaar
600:
599:
595:
590:
586:
581:
577:
556:
555:
551:
546:
542:
533:
529:
519:
517:
515:
500:
499:
492:
484:
480:
475:
471:
461:
459:
454:
453:
449:
444:
440:
430:
428:
426:
411:
410:
406:
396:
394:
385:
384:
380:
363:
356:
355:
348:
338:
336:
334:
319:
318:
314:
304:
302:
300:
285:
284:
280:
270:
268:
263:
262:
255:
250:
238:
195:travelled with
128:
96:
63:
60:
56:
47:
44:
35:
28:
23:
22:
15:
12:
11:
5:
926:
924:
916:
915:
910:
905:
900:
895:
890:
885:
875:
874:
871:
870:
865:
860:
855:
849:
838:
837:External links
835:
832:
831:
813:
801:
789:
780:
771:
759:
747:
733:
713:
704:
690:
670:
648:
634:
614:
593:
584:
575:
549:
540:
527:
513:
490:
478:
469:
447:
438:
424:
404:
378:
346:
332:
312:
298:
278:
252:
251:
249:
246:
237:
234:
127:
124:
95:
92:
83:
82:
79:
75:
74:
69:
65:
64:
61:
59:(aged 73)
53:
49:
48:
45:
41:
37:
36:
33:
26:
24:
14:
13:
10:
9:
6:
4:
3:
2:
925:
914:
911:
909:
906:
904:
901:
899:
896:
894:
891:
889:
886:
884:
881:
880:
878:
869:
866:
864:
861:
859:
856:
853:
850:
848:
844:
841:
840:
836:
827:
823:
817:
814:
811:
805:
802:
799:
793:
790:
784:
781:
775:
772:
769:
763:
760:
757:
751:
748:
736:
730:
726:
725:
717:
714:
708:
705:
693:
687:
683:
682:
674:
671:
658:
652:
649:
637:
631:
627:
626:
618:
615:
610:
609:
604:
597:
594:
588:
585:
579:
576:
571:
567:
563:
559:
553:
550:
544:
541:
537:
531:
528:
516:
510:
506:
505:
497:
495:
491:
488:
482:
479:
473:
470:
457:
451:
448:
442:
439:
427:
425:9780608318417
421:
417:
416:
408:
405:
392:
388:
382:
379:
374:
368:
360:
353:
351:
347:
335:
333:9780875770161
329:
325:
324:
316:
313:
301:
295:
291:
290:
282:
279:
266:
260:
258:
254:
247:
245:
243:
235:
233:
231:
225:
221:
219:
215:
211:
206:
205:Thomas Edison
202:
198:
194:
189:
185:
183:
179:
173:
171:
166:
164:
160:
156:
152:
147:
145:
141:
135:
133:
125:
123:
121:
117:
112:
110:
106:
102:
93:
91:
89:
80:
76:
73:
70:
66:
55:March 6, 1894
54:
50:
46:New York City
42:
38:
31:
19:
825:
816:
804:
792:
783:
774:
762:
750:
738:. Retrieved
723:
716:
707:
695:. Retrieved
680:
673:
661:. Retrieved
651:
639:. Retrieved
624:
617:
606:
596:
587:
578:
569:
565:
552:
543:
530:
518:. Retrieved
503:
481:
472:
460:. Retrieved
450:
441:
429:. Retrieved
414:
407:
395:. Retrieved
381:
358:
337:. Retrieved
322:
315:
303:. Retrieved
288:
281:
269:. Retrieved
239:
226:
222:
190:
186:
174:
167:
148:
136:
129:
116:Augustus Jr.
113:
97:
87:
86:
57:(1894-03-06)
888:1894 deaths
883:1820 births
572:(2): 49â52.
214:Casa Grande
105:Beacon Hill
94:Early years
877:Categories
822:"Downtown"
663:19 January
520:19 January
431:18 January
339:19 January
305:18 January
271:19 January
248:References
740:3 January
697:3 January
641:3 January
367:cite book
361:. Boston.
462:April 6,
397:April 6,
78:Children
845:at the
218:Hohokam
153:of the
731:
688:
632:
570:XXXVII
511:
422:
330:
296:
126:Career
68:Spouse
742:2013
729:ISBN
699:2013
686:ISBN
665:2013
643:2013
630:ISBN
522:2013
509:ISBN
464:2023
433:2013
420:ISBN
399:2023
373:link
341:2013
328:ISBN
307:2013
294:ISBN
273:2013
197:Zuni
52:Died
40:Born
879::
824:.
605:.
568:.
564:.
493:^
389:.
369:}}
365:{{
349:^
256:^
828:.
744:.
701:.
667:.
645:.
524:.
466:.
435:.
401:.
375:)
343:.
309:.
275:.
81:5
20:)
Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Additional terms may apply.