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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
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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)
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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
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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,
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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,
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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,
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Before Langley Air Force Base: The muddy history of Shellbacks, Sherwood and other plantations of Elizabeth County. Matt Cahill, Daily Press, June 26, 2022
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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.
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Twenty-two years' work of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute at Hampton, VA. Library of Congress collections, available through archive.org
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Creating a Tradition: Early Campus Planning Hampton Institute 1868-1893. PhD dissertation College of William and Mary, Susan Hicks Jones, pp.133-134
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to be the school's administrator. Hemenway then donated $ 100,000 to fund a teacher training school, the Tileston Normal School. In Wilmington.
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to teach. By 1871 her funding built the Hemenway school to accommodate the needs of hundreds of students. Bradley hired her niece
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Hemenway died at her home on Beacon Hill. Her memorial service was held at the Old South Meeting House. She is remembered on the
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in Boston from destruction after a fire in 1872. She also hired Amy Morris Homans to become her personal assistant.
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The descendants of Major Samuel Lawrence of Groton, Massachusetts: with some mention of allied families
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Augustus Hemenway, 1805–1876: builder of the United States trade with the west coast of South America
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culture of the Southwest. Drawings of pottery from this exhibition are in the Smithsonian archives.
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Hemenway also made large financial contributions to American archaeology. In 1886 the ethnologist
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Memorial Services in honour of Mrs. Mary Hemenway by the Boston Public School Teachers 1894
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Memorial Services in honour of Mrs. Mary Hemenway by the Boston Public School Teachers 1894
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Memorial Services in honour of Mrs. Mary Hemenway by the Boston Public School Teachers 1894
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in the Hemenway Room. Soon after Hemenway organized for the preservation of the Hohokam '
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Following her husband's death in 1876, Hemenway donated $ 100,000 to help save the
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James, Edward T.; James, Janet Wilson; Boyer, Paul S.; Radcliffe College (1971).
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and the Beginnings of Professional Education for Women" 1986 Greenwood Press.
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The Part Taken by Women in American History. Mrs. John A. Logan, 1912, p.525.
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Archives, Ancestors, Practices: Archaeology in the Light of Its History
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Archives, Ancestors, Practices: Archaeology in the Light of Its History
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A Memorial of the Life and Benefactions of Mary Hemenway (1820-1894)
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In 1868 Hemenway helped to finance the Union Army leader General
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New Perspectives on the Origins of Americanist Archaeology
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Browman, David L; Williams, Stephen (19 February 2002).
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Index

Mary Porter Tileston Hemenway
Edward Augustus Holyoke Hemenway
Edward Augustus Holyoke Hemenway
Beacon Hill
James Freeman Clarke
Augustus Jr.
Harriet Lawrence
Sanitary Commission
Amy Morris Bradley
Amy Morris Homans
Samuel C. Armstrong
Freedmen's Bureau
United States Colored Troops
Hampton University
Old South Meeting House
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee Institute
Frank Hamilton Cushing
Zuni
Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition
Thomas Edison
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Casa Grande
Hohokam
Wellesley College
Boston Women's Heritage Trail


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