Martha Bockee Flint was the only daughter of Augustus and Catharine Jerusha Bockee Flint. She graduated in the first class for women at Elmira College in 1859.
She was Preceptress (now called Dean of Women) at Monticello Academy at Monticello, NY, during the 1871-72 year. She also taught Physical Science, plus Creative and Advanced English Composition, and possibly some foreign languages, there from 1867 to 1871.
She taught at Wellsley College in Cinncinati,OH. While teaching there she developed an outstanding reputation as a Professor of Physical Science. She was then hired to teach at Science Hill Preparatory School in Shelbyville, KY from 1879 to 1883.
She then taught at least one year at Adrian College in Michigan in 1883-84.
There were very few women teachers, especially in Colleges and Prep Schools in the days before 1900. Most of them came from the northeastern U. S. because this is where the top girls schools and colleges of the country were located at that time.
She also wrote books: one called "History of Early Long Island" and one that was a genealogy of the Bockee family.
Cemetery: Smithfield Burying Ground
Name: Martha Bockee Flint
Death Date: 18 Oct 1900
Birth Date: 08 Aug 1841
Inscription: Flint, Martha Bockee, Aug. 8, 1841-Oct. 18, 1900
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The Millbrook Roundtable, Thursday, Nov. 18, 1954, p. 4-
Martha Oakley Bockee Flint was the daughter of the late Augustus Flint and Catherine Bockee. The latter being the daughter of Judge Bockee, one of the eminent jurists and patriots of the Hudson River Valley region in the Revolutionary period.
Miss Flint's active life was spent as a teacher--a profession in which she was eminently successful. Miss Flint was a graduate of Elmira College in its first class. She was a woman of uncommon powers and wide culture and, after passing middle life, her health made it advisable that she give up teaching. Her later years were devoted to genealogical studies for which she had an interest that amounted to an almost absorbing passion. Her family relationship led her to take a keen interest in Long Island history and genealogy and she wrote much on those and kindred themes.
Miss Flint was gifted with a charming personality; was a brilliant conversationalist and was sure to improve the intellectual life of any circle in which she moved.
Miss Flint's death occurred October 16th, 1900, at the home of her brother, Charles Augustus Flint, at Amenia City, Dutchess County, in the house built by her grandfather, Jabez Flint, in 1814.
Miss Flint's writings were published in many of the leading papers and magazines. Among her articles were: "A Colonial Doctor," in the Boston Evening Transcript, July 1895; "Some Conceptions of Saint Cecelia," Art Interchange, March 1897; "Flowers in Cookery," American Kitchen Magazine, July 1898; "Early English Banquets," Table Talk, March 1899; "A Girls' School Sixty Years Ago," The Home Journal, October 1899; and "Michaelmas Daisies," The Evening Post, September 1896.
She was Preceptress (now called Dean of Women) at Monticello Academy at Monticello, NY, during the 1871-72 year. She also taught Physical Science, plus Creative and Advanced English Composition, and possibly some foreign languages, there from 1867 to 1871.
She taught at Wellsley College in Cinncinati,OH. While teaching there she developed an outstanding reputation as a Professor of Physical Science. She was then hired to teach at Science Hill Preparatory School in Shelbyville, KY from 1879 to 1883.
She then taught at least one year at Adrian College in Michigan in 1883-84.
There were very few women teachers, especially in Colleges and Prep Schools in the days before 1900. Most of them came from the northeastern U. S. because this is where the top girls schools and colleges of the country were located at that time.
She also wrote books: one called "History of Early Long Island" and one that was a genealogy of the Bockee family.
Cemetery: Smithfield Burying Ground
Name: Martha Bockee Flint
Death Date: 18 Oct 1900
Birth Date: 08 Aug 1841
Inscription: Flint, Martha Bockee, Aug. 8, 1841-Oct. 18, 1900
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The Millbrook Roundtable, Thursday, Nov. 18, 1954, p. 4-
Martha Oakley Bockee Flint was the daughter of the late Augustus Flint and Catherine Bockee. The latter being the daughter of Judge Bockee, one of the eminent jurists and patriots of the Hudson River Valley region in the Revolutionary period.
Miss Flint's active life was spent as a teacher--a profession in which she was eminently successful. Miss Flint was a graduate of Elmira College in its first class. She was a woman of uncommon powers and wide culture and, after passing middle life, her health made it advisable that she give up teaching. Her later years were devoted to genealogical studies for which she had an interest that amounted to an almost absorbing passion. Her family relationship led her to take a keen interest in Long Island history and genealogy and she wrote much on those and kindred themes.
Miss Flint was gifted with a charming personality; was a brilliant conversationalist and was sure to improve the intellectual life of any circle in which she moved.
Miss Flint's death occurred October 16th, 1900, at the home of her brother, Charles Augustus Flint, at Amenia City, Dutchess County, in the house built by her grandfather, Jabez Flint, in 1814.
Miss Flint's writings were published in many of the leading papers and magazines. Among her articles were: "A Colonial Doctor," in the Boston Evening Transcript, July 1895; "Some Conceptions of Saint Cecelia," Art Interchange, March 1897; "Flowers in Cookery," American Kitchen Magazine, July 1898; "Early English Banquets," Table Talk, March 1899; "A Girls' School Sixty Years Ago," The Home Journal, October 1899; and "Michaelmas Daisies," The Evening Post, September 1896.
Martha Bockee Flint was the only daughter of Augustus and Catharine Jerusha Bockee Flint. She graduated in the first class for women at Elmira College in 1859.
She was Preceptress (now called Dean of Women) at Monticello Academy at Monticello, NY, during the 1871-72 year. She also taught Physical Science, plus Creative and Advanced English Composition, and possibly some foreign languages, there from 1867 to 1871.
She taught at Wellsley College in Cinncinati,OH. While teaching there she developed an outstanding reputation as a Professor of Physical Science. She was then hired to teach at Science Hill Preparatory School in Shelbyville, KY from 1879 to 1883.
She then taught at least one year at Adrian College in Michigan in 1883-84.
There were very few women teachers, especially in Colleges and Prep Schools in the days before 1900. Most of them came from the northeastern U. S. because this is where the top girls schools and colleges of the country were located at that time.
She also wrote books: one called "History of Early Long Island" and one that was a genealogy of the Bockee family.
Cemetery: Smithfield Burying Ground
Name: Martha Bockee Flint
Death Date: 18 Oct 1900
Birth Date: 08 Aug 1841
Inscription: Flint, Martha Bockee, Aug. 8, 1841-Oct. 18, 1900
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The Millbrook Roundtable, Thursday, Nov. 18, 1954, p. 4-
Martha Oakley Bockee Flint was the daughter of the late Augustus Flint and Catherine Bockee. The latter being the daughter of Judge Bockee, one of the eminent jurists and patriots of the Hudson River Valley region in the Revolutionary period.
Miss Flint's active life was spent as a teacher--a profession in which she was eminently successful. Miss Flint was a graduate of Elmira College in its first class. She was a woman of uncommon powers and wide culture and, after passing middle life, her health made it advisable that she give up teaching. Her later years were devoted to genealogical studies for which she had an interest that amounted to an almost absorbing passion. Her family relationship led her to take a keen interest in Long Island history and genealogy and she wrote much on those and kindred themes.
Miss Flint was gifted with a charming personality; was a brilliant conversationalist and was sure to improve the intellectual life of any circle in which she moved.
Miss Flint's death occurred October 16th, 1900, at the home of her brother, Charles Augustus Flint, at Amenia City, Dutchess County, in the house built by her grandfather, Jabez Flint, in 1814.
Miss Flint's writings were published in many of the leading papers and magazines. Among her articles were: "A Colonial Doctor," in the Boston Evening Transcript, July 1895; "Some Conceptions of Saint Cecelia," Art Interchange, March 1897; "Flowers in Cookery," American Kitchen Magazine, July 1898; "Early English Banquets," Table Talk, March 1899; "A Girls' School Sixty Years Ago," The Home Journal, October 1899; and "Michaelmas Daisies," The Evening Post, September 1896.
She was Preceptress (now called Dean of Women) at Monticello Academy at Monticello, NY, during the 1871-72 year. She also taught Physical Science, plus Creative and Advanced English Composition, and possibly some foreign languages, there from 1867 to 1871.
She taught at Wellsley College in Cinncinati,OH. While teaching there she developed an outstanding reputation as a Professor of Physical Science. She was then hired to teach at Science Hill Preparatory School in Shelbyville, KY from 1879 to 1883.
She then taught at least one year at Adrian College in Michigan in 1883-84.
There were very few women teachers, especially in Colleges and Prep Schools in the days before 1900. Most of them came from the northeastern U. S. because this is where the top girls schools and colleges of the country were located at that time.
She also wrote books: one called "History of Early Long Island" and one that was a genealogy of the Bockee family.
Cemetery: Smithfield Burying Ground
Name: Martha Bockee Flint
Death Date: 18 Oct 1900
Birth Date: 08 Aug 1841
Inscription: Flint, Martha Bockee, Aug. 8, 1841-Oct. 18, 1900
--------------------------------------
The Millbrook Roundtable, Thursday, Nov. 18, 1954, p. 4-
Martha Oakley Bockee Flint was the daughter of the late Augustus Flint and Catherine Bockee. The latter being the daughter of Judge Bockee, one of the eminent jurists and patriots of the Hudson River Valley region in the Revolutionary period.
Miss Flint's active life was spent as a teacher--a profession in which she was eminently successful. Miss Flint was a graduate of Elmira College in its first class. She was a woman of uncommon powers and wide culture and, after passing middle life, her health made it advisable that she give up teaching. Her later years were devoted to genealogical studies for which she had an interest that amounted to an almost absorbing passion. Her family relationship led her to take a keen interest in Long Island history and genealogy and she wrote much on those and kindred themes.
Miss Flint was gifted with a charming personality; was a brilliant conversationalist and was sure to improve the intellectual life of any circle in which she moved.
Miss Flint's death occurred October 16th, 1900, at the home of her brother, Charles Augustus Flint, at Amenia City, Dutchess County, in the house built by her grandfather, Jabez Flint, in 1814.
Miss Flint's writings were published in many of the leading papers and magazines. Among her articles were: "A Colonial Doctor," in the Boston Evening Transcript, July 1895; "Some Conceptions of Saint Cecelia," Art Interchange, March 1897; "Flowers in Cookery," American Kitchen Magazine, July 1898; "Early English Banquets," Table Talk, March 1899; "A Girls' School Sixty Years Ago," The Home Journal, October 1899; and "Michaelmas Daisies," The Evening Post, September 1896.
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