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I have been researching my family history, and there is a record that one of my relatives, Rebecca Nash of Whitemarsh, Montgomery County, PA, graduated from Pennsylvania Female College in 1865. It was also indicated that there was a Pennsylvania Female College that was incorporated around 1858 in Collegeville.
The Wikipedia article indicates it was founded in 1869.
Is there any connection between the college in that is now Chatham University and the Pennsylvania Female College in Montgomery County:?
The following is from a link to [1] [2][2]
ALUMNI OF PENNSYLVANIA FEMALE COLLEGE
Class of 1865
PENNSYLVANIA FEMALE COLLEGE (Collegeville, Pa.). -Prominent among the educators of Montgomery County are Professor J. Warrenne Sunderland, LL.D., and Luannie Sunderland, who, with the Rev. Abraham Hunsicker, organized the Montgomery Female Institute or Seminary as early as 1851. In their "announcement" they proclaimed what was then a new departure, and boldly advocated the necessity of a higher education for women in terms which, however well accepted and popular now, were deemed by many well-disposed and influential persons visionary then. These advanced educators then said, "We believe the female mind endowed with powers and capabilities quite equal to those of the other sex, and no sufficient reason can be assigned why they should not be as fully and carefully developed. In projecting this institution, therefore, we have a twofold object in view, -first, to provide, correct and thorough instruction in the ordinary branches of learning at so cheap a rate as to bring it within the reach of all; second, to afford to such young ladies as may desire to pursue a more extensive course in the sciences and liberal arts an opportunity of doing so under circumstances as favorable as those enjoyed by the other sex at our most reputable colleges." They further assured parents, guardians and the public that "any young lady completing the course of studies prescribed, and sustaining satisfactory examinations, would receive an appropriate diploma, and be entitled to a laureate as significant and valuable is that conferred on young men at institutions of a corresponding grade."
The foundation was now laid for a "Female College" in Montgomery County.
If it was an experiment, it had liberal-minded, progressive and determined projectors, and measures were speedily taken to obtain such chartered privileges from the commonwealth as would place the institution in such a position as to command the respect, interest and public favor originally solicited for it by its founders. In 1853 an act of incorporation was obtained, vesting the following named trustees with the necessary corporate powers: James Warrenne Sunderland, John R. Grigg, Mathias Haldeman, William B. Hahn and Wright Bringhurst. These trustees were empowered to appoint a president and faculty of instruction, "who shall be charged with the direction and management of the literary affairs of the college, etc." The Charter provided that "the faculty shall have power to confer such literary degrees and academic honors as are usually granted by colleges upon such pupils as shall have completed in a satisfactory manner the prescribed course of study." [NOTE]
[NOTE] Act to incorporate the Pennsylvania Female, College, Pamphlet
Laws, 1858, page:127.
This pioneer female college gave a new and startling impulse to the
advance of woman, and its annual commencements called together the most learned and progressive audiences that ever assembled in the Perkiomen Valley. It was indeed something new for the mothers of Eastern Pennsylvania to witness the graduation of daughters with collegiate honors; and on all these occasions the "class," surrounded by corporators and faculty, having passed the examination required by the high standard prescribed, and otherwise acquitted themselves in accordance with the commencement exercises, elated with their success as students flushed with tributes of substantial friendship and the congratulations of senior college sisters, waited in common with an expectant public for the parting address of the president, who was required to disarm all unfriendly criticism, justify the pronounced innovation upon rules of education and approve the advent of the graduates upon the threshold of a higher and broader life than had been vouchsafed to the earlier generations of womanhood in Pennsylvania. This task Professor Sunderland always performed during his presidency with distinguished ability and marked public approval, and to no one more than him is due the credit and honor of moulding that public opinion which a quarter of a century ago and since has demanded equal educational advantages for woman, fitting her for the employment of teacher and all the higher pursuits of life in which she is now found. Joepmyers (talk) 02:52, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page).This source [1] says that the Rt. Rev. Beverly Roberts Waugh was the PFC's first principal from 1853–61. (A man's name, btw.) Choor monster (talk) 13:13, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
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