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6 President and Mrs. George W. Lloyd
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J istorp of tfje fetfjool . — i lHE story of the life of Mount ||| Vernon is a long and vividly interesting one, dominated by the omnipresent memory of Mrs. Elizabeth J. Somers, the founder and beloved inspiration of the school. First, it must be said that Mrs. Somers was a born teacher, with that certain knack in her blood. When a Judge Cooley, who was spending the winter in Washington, asked her to tutor his three daughters, she couldn’t refuse. And these three little girls, Clara, Minnie, and Mary, were the first of countless numbers of young ladies who were to become Mrs. Somers’ girls”. The wide, sunny room, in which Mrs. Somers taught, was at 204 F Street. So it was that in 1866, she embarked upon what was to become a pleasure-filled ca- reer, and one in which she contributed much more than mere book-knowledge to the lives of her many students. After the Cooley sisters came six girls who were slightly older. At one time the number of this group was increased by one, when a Japanese prince joined the lessons fer a short period. It was in 1875 that Mrs. Somers opened her first organized school, naming it Mount Vernon Seminary, for the Mount Vernon Place Church in Baltimore, where her brother Dr. Thomas Eddy devoted { 8
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