Category: Biographies
II. THE FATHERLESS CHILD 20 III. LADY ANGELINE 24 IV. TEACHING SCHOOL 30 V. THE NEXT STEP 33 VI. COLLEGE DAYS 38 VII. COLLEGE PRODUCTIONS 47 VIII. ASAPH HALL, CARPENTER 54 IX. COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE 59 X. ANN ARBOR AND SHALERSVILLE 66 XI. STRENUOUS TIMES 70 XII. LOVE IN A COTT...
The letters of Angeline Hall are genuine letters—not meant for publication, but for the eyes of the persons addressed. The style, even the spelling and punctuation, are faulty;...
16. CHAPTER XV.The desire of knowledge is a powerful instinct of the soul, as inherent in woman as in man.... It was designed to be gratified, all the avenues of her soul are open for its grat...
7. CHAPTER VI.New York Central College, at McGrawville, Cortland County, seems to have been the forerunner of Cornell University. Anybody, white or black, man or woman, could study there. It...
14. CHAPTER XIII.Many an obscure man of ability was raised to prominence by the Civil War. So it was with the astronomer, Asaph Hall. A year after the war broke out, the staff of workers at the...
12. CHAPTER XI.They had left Shalersville resolved that Asaph should continue his studies, but undecided where to go. Professor Brünnow invited him to Ann Arbor; and Mr. Bond, director of the...
15. CHAPTER XIV.In November, 1867, the Halls bought the Captain Peters’ place, No. 18 Gay Street, Georgetown, and for twenty-five years, that is, for the rest of Angeline Hall’s life, this was...
8. CHAPTER VII.It is next in order to examine some of the literary productions of Angeline Stickney while at college. Like the literary remains of Oliver Cromwell, they are of a strange and un...
10. CHAPTER IX.President Eliot of Harvard University is quoted as saying that marriage ought to unite two persons of the same religious faith: otherwise it is likely to prove unhappy. Presiden...
2. CHAPTER I.One fine winter morning a little more than a hundred years ago the sun peeped into the snow-clad valley of the Connecticut, and smiled cordially upon the snug homes of the sons...
4. CHAPTER III.In the summer of 1841 Elisha Cook closed his brave blue eyes in death; and the following winter a letter came to the Rodman postmaster saying that a man by the name of Theophilu...
6. CHAPTER V.“Do the next thing”—such is the sage advice of some practical philosopher. Had Angeline Stickney failed to keep advancing she would have sunk into obscurity, as her sisters did,...
13. CHAPTER XII.Miss Sarah Waitt, a Cambridge school-teacher of beautiful character, and firm friend of Angeline Hall, once said, after an acquaintance of thirty years or more, that she had nev...
9. CHAPTER VIII.Like many other impecunious Americans (Angeline Stickney included), Asaph Hall, carpenter, and afterwards astronomer, came of excellent family. He was descended from John Hall,...
18. CHAPTER XVII.There is one master link in the family bond, as there is one keystone in the arch. Often we know not its binding power until it is taken away. Then the home begins to crumble an...
3. CHAPTER II.All the saints had not appeared on earth till the birth of Chloe Angeline Stickney on All Saints’ Day, 1830. At least, if she is not one of the All Saints she is one of the Hall...
11. CHAPTER X.Do you know the beautiful legend of St. Christopher, the strong man who served his masters well, but was dissatisfied in their service until he heard of the Lord and Master Jesu...
5. CHAPTER IV.In the North teaching follows schooling almost as a matter of course. In 1848 Angeline Stickney began to teach the district school in Heath Hollow, near Rodman, for a dollar and...
1. CHAPTER I. A GRAND-DAUGHTER OF THE REVOLUTION 13II. THE FATHERLESS CHILD 20 III. LADY ANGELINE 24 IV. TEACHING SCHOOL 30 V. THE NEXT STEP 33 VI. COLLEGE DAYS 38 VII. COLLEGE PRODUCTIONS 47 VIII. ASAPH HALL, CARPENTER 54 IX. C...