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Sophia goes to MIT

Posted in Architect Sophia Hayden, Bennett, Genealogy, Hayden on October 11, 2011 | 4 Comments »

Remembering Sophia Hayden Bennett, Part 2 Back to Sophia’s story After an unusual childhood (Part 1), a determined Sophia Hayden was among  the first women admitted to the Architecture Program at MIT in 1886.  She was one of two women in the program.  An 1888 photograph of all (about 25) MIT female students – each [...]

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Remembering Sophia Hayden Bennett, Part 1

Posted in Architect Sophia Hayden, Bennett, Genealogy, Hayden on October 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

My gg-grandmother Catherine Spaulding had 4 children.  Because I have had very little luck tracing her and her husband(s) further back, I have focused a lot on those four children.  They were Aunt Jennie, my g-grandfather Miles Baldwin Sr, Aunt Hattie, and an artist, William Blackstone Bennett. Of the four, my mother probably knew the [...]

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