Valentine's manual of the city of New York, 1917-1918 . er was set-tled before the years directory was published, for inthat Mrs. Smith appears with twenty other of theprincipal female seminaries of the city. Only one ofthese was as far up town as St. Marks Place. JamesBoorman had by this time become one of the notablemen of the city. Hhe had been active in founding theUniversity of the City of New York and he was nowinterested in the improvement of the region where thenew college was building at Seventh Street. The ancientPotters Field and gallows ground had been turned intoWashington Square
Valentine's manual of the city of New York, 1917-1918 . er was set-tled before the years directory was published, for inthat Mrs. Smith appears with twenty other of theprincipal female seminaries of the city. Only one ofthese was as far up town as St. Marks Place. JamesBoorman had by this time become one of the notablemen of the city. Hhe had been active in founding theUniversity of the City of New York and he was nowinterested in the improvement of the region where thenew college was building at Seventh Street. The ancientPotters Field and gallows ground had been turned intoWashington Square and a number of wealthy men werebuilding homes about its freshly laid out lawns andwalks. Mr. Boorman built the fine old house of lightred brick with white trimming, still standing at theeastern corner of Fifth Avenue and the Square, andabove two more houses, t and 3 Fifth Avenue, for hissisters school. In September, 1835, the school openedin this new home, and it was in this year also that therecame a piece of rare good fortune not only to Mrs. [37+]. Broadway at Kighih Slr«al — TJie Sinclair House — Originally the favoriteheadquarters of the New York booksellers. Demolished, 1900. Smith, to whom it meant years of warm friendship, butto thousands of young women who, in the next thirtyyears, were to come under the new teachers strong andwise influence. Lucy Green had been a pupil in theschool and before that had studied under Lucretia Ban-croft, sister of the historian, and Dorothea L. Dix, thatpioneer of prison reform, and she shared their qualitiesof earnestness and high principle. She had, too, theadvantage, at that time uncommon for women, of aseason of foreign travel. Cholera had visited the city severely in 1834, and thismay have been the severe contagious illness which wearc told had for a time a serious effect on the prosperityof the school. Certainly the strictest economy was atthis time needful before the continued success of theenterprise that bad served the ci
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