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Abby Hadassah Smith (1797–1878), a public speaker on suffrage and a protagonist in the tax battle detailed in her sister Julia's book [4] [5] Unusually for the period, four of the daughters did not marry, while the fifth (Julia) married only at the age of 87. [1] Glastonbury's middle school, Smith Middle School, is named after the family. [6]
Academy School is a former school complex located in Glastonbury, Connecticut, United States. It was discontinued for school use in 2001 with the opening of the Smith Middle School and renovation of the Gideon Welles School. From 1974 to 2001, Academy School was the town's sixth-grade school, although it housed some fifth-grade students as well ...
Born as Mary Aurelia Kingsbury on July 3, 1865, in Glastonbury, Connecticut, United States, Mary A. Kingsbury was the daughter of Daniel Kingsbury, a doctor, and his second wife, Lucy M.Cone. She completed her school education at the Glastonbury Free Academy (GFA). She continued her higher studies at the Smith College in Massachusetts. [1]
Gideon Welles School has just over 500 students in 6th grade, and Smith Middle School has 1,035 students in 7th and 8th grades. The town's high school, Glastonbury High School, has 2,173 students as of October 2013. Glastonbury's school system was referenced in episode 563, Act 2, of the radio show This American Life.
Apr. 7—GLASTONBURY — The Board of Education this week plugged a $1.1 million hole in its budget for the next school year, adopting in final form a $113.5 million budget, which is up $1.8 ...
The Kimberly Mansion is a historic house at 1625 Main Street in Glastonbury, Connecticut, United States.It was the home of Abby and Julia Evelina Smith, political activists involved in causes including abolitionism and women's suffrage.
Abby Hadassah Smith (June 1, 1797 – July 23, 1879) was an early American suffragist who campaigned for property and voting rights from Glastonbury, Connecticut. [1] She was a subject of the book Abby Smith and Her Cows in which her sister Julia Evelina Smith told the story of a tax resistance struggle they undertook in the suffrage cause.
E.E. Smith High School has been in four different locations over the years: Orange Street, Campbell Avenue, Washington Drive, and and its current location on Seabrook Road since 1954.