“ She was educated in the academy in Hartford, Conn., and, at the age of sixteen, began her career as a teacher. She taught in different institutions and finally took charge of a school in Middlebury, Vt. In 1809 she became the wife of Dr. John Willard, then United Sutes Marshal of Vermont. In 1814 she opened a girls' boarding-school in Middlebury, in which she adopted many new features. EMMA WILLARD. She decided to found a seminary for girls, and in 1819 she addressed a treatise on "The Education of Women" to the legislature. ”

“ Her publications are: "The Woodbridge and Willard Geographies and Atlases" (1823) ; "History of the United States, or Republic of America" (1828) ; "Universal History in Perspective" (1837) ; "Treatise on the Circulation of the Blood" (1846) ; "Respiration and Its Effects, Particularly as Respects Asiatic Cholera" (1849) ; "Last Leaves of American History" (1849) ; "Astronomy" (1853) ; "Morals for the Young " (1857) , and many charts, atlases, pamphlets and addresses. ”