Jane Slocum

Jane Slocum
Portrait from A Woman of the Century
BornMay 1, 1842
Slocumville, Jefferson County, New York, U.S.
DiedAugust 10, 1924 (aged 82)
Weiser, Idaho, U.S.
Occupations
  • educator
  • lecturer

Jane Slocum (1842–1924) was an American educator and lecturer.[1] She taught in the Freedman School, Yorktown, Virginia, during the last year of the Civil War (1865), then in Howland Institute, Union Springs, New York (except 1871–72) till 1876. In 1876, she was one of four who founded Granger Place School at Canandaigua, New York, and conducted it 17 years. She went to New York City in 1893, where she gave parlor talks and had classes in social science in Carnegie Hall. Slocum was interested in civics, economics and the general welfare of the people, as well as bettering social conditions. She was a co-founder of the Idaho Industrial Institute, 1900, and served as principal of its girls' department before becoming a trustee, vice-president, and chair of its Educational Committee.[2]

  1. ^ Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "SLOCUM, Miss Jane Mariah". A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Charles Wells Moulton. pp. 658–59. Retrieved 10 October 2024. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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