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Ellen Swallow Richards

Early in September, 1899, trustees of the Lake Placid Club, at Morningside, NY, thought it was the right time to bring together those most interested in home science, or household economics.


Society to Encourage Studies at Home

Among those involved as teachers were: Ellen Swallow Richards (science), Vida Dutton Scudder (English), Lucretia Crocker (science), Katherine Peabody Loring (history), Alice James (history), Lucy Elliot Keeler (history), Florence Trail (ancient history) and Elizabeth Thorndike Thornton (history).


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