The Cincinnati Female Seminary was a seminary in

Cincinnati Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line wit ...

, Ohio. The seminary was located at the southwest corner of W Seventh and Mound Streets. In 1843,

Margaret Coxe Margaret Coxe (1805–1855) was an American writer and educator. Coxe founded the Cincinnati Female Seminary in 1843. Seven years later, John Zachos became a co-owner and principal of the school. In 1851, they became co-owners and principals of ...

founded the Cincinnati Female Seminary. In 1850, John Zachos, became Coxe's co-owner and its principal. The school had ten teachers, with a 1 to 12 ratio of teachers to students. (It is also reported that the school started as a private seminary ''c.'' 1849 and run by T. A. Burrowes. By the fifth year there were 136 pupils.) Funds were raised in 1854 for a public seminary of the same name, with a target of $35,000. The board of trustees was interdenominational. The inaugural principal was to be Burrowes. "By an arrangement entered into by the proprietors of the Cincinnati Female Seminary and the Mount Auburn Young Ladies’ Institute, the former was transferred to Mount Auburn, and the two schools consolidated into one in September, 1861."

Notable alumni

Susan Fessenden Susan Fessenden (, Snowden; December 10, 1840 – September 12, 1932) was an American temperance worker, characterized as a progressive thinker upon all lines of reform. She served as president of the Massachusetts Woman's Christian Temperance Un ...

, (1840–1932), temperance activist

Notable staff

* Rachel Littler Bodley, teacher of natural sciences (1862-5)

References

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