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Was sent at seven to a cousin's in Milton (?) to school. She does not quite understand why sent so young. Dreadfully homesick as also when sent at eleven. Cried daily, thinks there is nothing equal to homesickness to make one miserable. Was in Stillwater Academy at eleven. Zalmon Richards, afterwards first pres. of National Teachers' Assoc., was at the head of the school. Taught seven terms in between going at eleven & about eighteen. Kept house for her father on her return the first time—went to Albany Normal in the early twenties. Worked tremendously there. Graduated in a year.