Eliza Chappell Porter A Memoir

Chicago, IL: Fleming H. Revell Company. Very Good+. 1892. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and edge wear. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked gift notation on the front endpaper. "Porter was friends with a Mr. And Mrs. Loomis, missionaries from Rochester, who introduced her to Mr. And Mrs. Robert Stuart, who desired a teacher for their family. Stuart was a partner of John Jacob Astor at the American Fur Company in Mackinac Island, Michigan. Porter studied the Infant School system, and departed for Mackinac Island in June 1831. [10]At the age of 22, she began teaching the Stuart children, as well as other children on the island and at the mission. Porter struggled with the responsibilities of a new teacher, writing in her journal "my time is not my own". She saw the need for teachers as well as laborers, mechanics, and farmers to populate the frontier. She made a trip to New York to secure more teachers, and established schools in St. Ignace, Michigan." (from Wikipedia) .