His ancestors were New England schoolteachers and clergymen including, John P. Brace, Sarah Pierce, and the Rev. Blackleach Burritt.
He joined the school as her assistant in 1814, teaching till 1832 when he left to take over his former student Catharine Beecher’s Hartford Female Academy.
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Some of her most famous attendees and protégés were Catharine Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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Established in 1792, Sarah Pierce's Litchfield Female Academy was one of the first major educational institutions for women in the United States.