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Anna Peck Sill.
American educator and Rockford Female Seminary founder (1816-1889)
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About Anna Peck Sill
Anna Peck Sill was an American educator and the founder of Rockford Female Seminary, a school for the Christian education of young women in Rockford, Illinois, as an adjunct to Beloit College of Beloit, Wisconsin. Sill took inspiration from Mary Lyon and modeled the Rockford school after Mount Holyoke Seminary. Sill retired in 1884, after 35 years as Rockford's principal, five thousand women having graduated under her.
Everything about Anna Peck Sill →- Occupation
- educator, head teacher
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- 1816
- Died
- 1889