Emma C. (Hart) Willard (February 23, 1787 - April 15, 1870), was an American women's rights advocate, and the pioneer who founded the first women's school of higher education. Emma Willard File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... February 23 is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1787 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (106th in leap years). ... 1870 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Women expressing their rights Womens rights typically refers to the legal, social and human rights of women. ... The University of Cambridge is an institute of higher learning. ...

Willard was born Berlin, Connecticut and was the 17th child of Samuel Hart. She attended a district school at Worthington Point. Emma had started teaching at the age of 17 and shortly after turning 20, job offers from Westfield, Massachusetts, Middlebury, Vermont, and Hudson, New York. She accepted the offer from Vermont and moved there. In 1809 she married Dr. Willard. In 1814, she opened the Middlebury Female Seminary in her home. After moving to New York she opened the Waterford Academy in 1819 in Waterford, New York, but it had to be closed in 1821 because of a lack of funding. In September, however, the city of Troy requested the school to be moved there, and Willard accepted the offer and founded the Troy Female Seminary. Afterward, as the Emma Willard School, it was notably prosperous and successful. Berlin is a town located in Hartford County, Connecticut. ... Nickname: The Whip City Founded Incorporated May 19, 1669   County Hampden County Mayor Richard K. Sullivan Jr. ... Middlebury, Vermont Main Street Otter Creek Falls Middlebury is a town located in Addison County, Vermont. ... Hudson is a city located in Columbia County, New York. ... 1814 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Official language(s) None, English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 27th 141,205 km² 455 km 530 km 13. ... Waterford Harbor and the Mohawk River (©2003 Mohawk Towpath Scenic Byways Inc. ... The Troy Female Seminary was founded by Emma (Hart) Willard in 1821 in Troy, New York. ... The Emma Willard School is an independent university-preparatory boarding school for young women, located in Troy, New York offering grades 9-12 and PG. It was founded by the womens advocate Emma Willard in 1814 and has an endowment of $91 million. ...

Mrs. Willard's husband died in 1825, but she continued to manage the institution until 1838, when she placed it in the hands of her son. She married Dr. Christopher C. Yates in 1838 but was divorced from him in 1843. In 1830, she made a tour of Europe, and three years later published Journals and Letters from Great Britain, the proceeds from the sale of the book she gave to a school for women that she helped to found in Athens, Greece. 1825 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... | Jöns Jakob Berzelius, discoverer of protein 1838 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1843 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix commemorates the July Revolution 1830 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Europe is conventionally considered one of the seven continents of Earth which, in this case, is more a cultural and political distinction than a physiographic one, leading to some dispute as to Europes actual borders. ... For other uses, see Athens (disambiguation). ...

Her works include The Woodbridge and Willard Geographies and Atlases, (1823); History of the United States, (1828); Universal History in Perspective, (1837); Treatise on the Circulation of the Blood, (1846); and Last Leaves of American History, (1849).

She co-authored, "A System of Universal Geography on the Principles of Comparison and Classification". A statue honoring her services to the cause of higher education was erected in Troy in 1895. Looking west down Broadway at downtown Troy. ... 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ...

External links

• Article from the New York State Senate
• Biography from Famous Americans
• Biography from the Willard School
• Article from the Emma Willard School