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Zilpah Polly Grant
American educator
Quick Facts
- Born:
- May 30, 1794, Norfolk, Conn., U.S.
- Died:
- Dec. 3, 1874, Newburyport, Mass. (aged 80)
Zilpah Polly Grant (born May 30, 1794, Norfolk, Conn., U.S.—died Dec. 3, 1874, Newburyport, Mass.) was a 19th-century American educator who, through her teaching and administrative efforts, was instrumental in promoting advanced educational opportunities for women. Grant attended local schools and, to the extent her frail health allowed, worked to help her widowed mother keep the family farm. From age 15 she taught in a variety of schools in nearby towns. In 1820 she seized an opportunity to further her own education and entered the Female Seminary of Byfield, Massachusetts, operated by Joseph Emerson. A year later she became a ...(100 of 325 words)