Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps (1793-1884)
MSA SC 3520-15243

Sources:

Newspapers/Journals -

"Almira Phelps." Notable Women Scientists. Gale Group, 2000.

“A Noted Teacher’s Death: Passing Away on Her Ninety-First Birthday. Long and Useful Career of Mrs. Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps—A Birthday Festival Prevented By Death.” New York Times. July 16, 1884.

Phelps, Almira Hart Lincoln. “A Reminiscence.: ‘We Know Not What A Day May Bring Forth.’” American Ladies' Magazine Vol VII (No. 12) December 1834: 529-534.

Scott, Anne Firor. "Almira Lincoln Phelps: The Self-Made Woman in the Nineteenth Century." Maryland Historical Magazine 75 (1980): 203-16.

Weeks, M.E., and F.B. Dains. “Mrs. A. H. Lincoln Phelps and Her Services to Chemical Education.” Journal of Chemical Education 14 (1937): 53-57.

Books/Articles-

Bolzan, Emma Lydia. Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps: Her Life and Work. Lancaster, PA: The Science Press Printing Company, 1936.

Fairbanks, Mary Mason, ed. Emma Willard and Her Pupils, or, Fifty years of Troy Female Seminary, 1822-1872. New York, NY: Mrs. R. Sage, 1858

Howard, George W. The Monumental City. Baltimore: J. D. Ehlers &Co., 1873.

McPherson, Mary K. "Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, 1793-1884." In Notable Maryland Women. Cambridge, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1977.

Mitchell, Helen Buss. 'The North and South Here Meet': Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps and the Patapsco Female Institute, 1841-1856. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland College Park, 1990.

Stegman, Carolyn B. Women of Achievement in Maryland History. University Park, MD: Women of Achievement, 2002.

Other sources -

1860 Census. Baltimore, Maryland. 20th Ward, p. 267, Phelps household.

1880 Census. Baltimore, Maryland. 3rd Precinct, 12th Ward, E.D. 108, p. 15, Phelps household.

BALTIMORE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT BUREAU OF VITAL STATISTICS (Death Record) Almira H. L. Phelps, July 15, 1884, Certificate No. 76786, MSA CM1132-24, CR 48,068.

BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Will), Almira H. L. Phelps, Vol. RTB 53, p. 183-187, CR 147-3, MSA CM 219-41

GOVENOR (Miscellaneous Papers), letter from Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps to Governor Augustus Bradford, August 11, 1862, Box 68 folder 26,  MSA S1274-68, MdHR 6636-68-26-7

GOVENOR (Miscellaneous Papers), letter from Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps to Governor Augustus Bradford, August 12, 1862, Box 68 folder 25, MSA S 1274-68, MdHR 6636-68-25-2.

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