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WHEATON THROUGH THE YEARS ... A TRADITION OF CHANGE The daughter of Judge Laban Wheaton and Fanny Morey Wheaton, Elizabeth Wheaton Strong, died at the age of 39 in 1834. Planning to erect a stone monument to memorialize their daughter, the Judge and his wife were persuaded by their daughter-in-law to act differently. Eliza Baylies Chapin Wheaton, the wife of Laban Morey Wheaton, suggested that the parents create a female seminary in memory of their daughter. The Seminary opened in 1834 and was directly connected to the Wheaton family until the death of Eliza Baylies Chapin Wheaton in 1905. With the help of Mary Lyon, a teacher at the Female Seminary in Ipswich, Massachu- setts, Laban Morey Wheaton and Eliza Bayles Chapin Wheaton were able to create a pro- gram for the students of the new school. Tuition was set at ten dollars for each of the two terms a year. On Wednesday, April 22, 1835, Wheaton Female Seminary opened, with classes held in the newly built Seminary Hall. Eunice Caldwell, another teacher at the Ips- wich school, became the first principal of the new seminary and boarded in Norton homes along with other teachers and the first fourty-nine students. Finding this situation impractical, Mary Lyon convinced Laban M. Wheaton to erect a dormitory, which was begun in December of 1835. A period of great instability which plagued the school from 1837 through the late 1840's was caused by the opening of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary by Mary Lyon. Not only was Mary Lyon unable to help the Wheaton’s run their school, but she took with her to this newer school Wheaton’s Principal, Miss Cald- well, one of Wheaton’s two full-time teach- ers, and several students. After several prin- cipals, a precipitous drop in enrollment, and serious financial problems, Elizabeth Cate be- ARCHIVES INFORMATION PROVIDED BY ZEPH STICKNEY
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