Elizabeth Ricord (2 April 1788 in
New Utrecht
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,
Long Island
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– 10 October 1865 in
Newark, New Jersey
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educator.
Biography
Ricord was the daughter of minister Peter Stryker. She was educated by private tutors. In 1829, she opened a seminary for young women in
Geneva, New York
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, of which she was principal until 1842. The great religious revival that spread through western New York in 1832 originated in her seminary. In 1845, Ricord moved to Newark, where she became interested in works of charity, and was a founder of the Newark Orphan Asylum, and its directress until her death. She contributed largely to magazines and journals.
She married
Jean Baptiste Ricord Jean Baptiste Ricord (born in Paris, France, in 1777; died on the island of Guadeloupe, West Indies, in 1837) was a French-American physician.
Biography
He was educated in France and in Italy, whither his father had fled during the French Revoluti ...
in 1810, and accompanied him in his expeditions to the
West Indies
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. Their son
Frederick William Ricord
Frederick William Ricord (born in Guadeloupe, West Indies, 7 October 1819; died in Newark, New Jersey, 12 August 1897) was a noted United States author.
Biography
He was the son of physician Jean Baptiste Ricord and educator Elizabeth Ricord, ...
was a politician and author. Another son,
John Ricord
John Ricord (September 5, 1813 – March 26, 1861) was a lawyer and world traveler. He was involved in cases in Texas, Oregon, Hawaii, and California.
Life
John Ricord was born on September 5, 1813, in Belleville, New Jersey. His mother, Elizabe ...
, was a lawyer and traveler.
Selected works
* ''Philosophy of the Mind'' (Geneva, 1840)
* ''Zamba, or the Insurrection, a Dramatic Poem'' (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1842)
References
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1788 births
1865 deaths
American educators
19th-century American philanthropists