Louise Veltin (January 8, 1856 - January 7, 1934) was the principal of the
Veltin School for Girls Veltin School for Girls was a private school founded by Louise Veltin in 1886 in Manhattan, New York. Veltin and Isabelle Dwight Sprague Smith were the school's principals.
The school was initially located at 175 West 73rd Street, but moved in 189 ...
in New York.
She was born in
Paris
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on January 8, 1856; her parents were Captain Christian Veltin and Henriette de Launay Veltin. Her father died fighting Native Americans in
New Mexico
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.
In 1886 she started the Veltin School for Girls, at 175 West 73rd St in
New York
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; she moved it to 160
West 74th Street
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in 1892, where it stayed until it closed in 1924.
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She was awarded the
Medaille de la Reconnaissance Francaise
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for her relief work in
World War I
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.
References
1856 births
1934 deaths
French emigrants to the United States
American educators