By Susan Rumsey Strong
Grounded in pupil stories at nineteenth-century Alfred collage, this social background explores the origins of women's better schooling and the agricultural roots of reform.
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While residents viewed their remoteness as a liability, rural life patterns in the Allegany hills produced egalitarian gender roles, manifest in shared labor, cross-gender socializing, and a degree of economic independence for women. The slow pace of economic development was dictated by geography. Much of Allegany County was still unsold in 1836, nearly thirty years after the first settlers reached Alfred, and transportation into these stony hills remained difficult. When James Irish (Alfred Select School’s second teacher) traveled to Alfred in November 1837, he related: Railroads were then unknown west of Utica, and the passage from Schenectady to Alfred had the vicissitudes incident to a wide range of locomotion.
Finally, the line from the Hudson River to Lake Erie was completed in 1851. “Music and dancing, banquets and speeches, were the order of the day,” wrote the county historian. “And who can feel to blame them? 19 Butter and cheese were made on nearly every farm. As elsewhere, dairying was a cooperative family occupation. The diaries of Maria Langworthy Whitford, who lived a few miles outside Alfred, give a vivid picture of life on the farms surrounding the school. Maria’s short life embodied patterns familiar to historians of such areas: a network of relatives and friends; a woman’s economic contribution through butter, weaving, and knitting; shared work with her husband.
Mrs. Orson Sheldon, sister of Dr. John R. Hartshorn (who later taught anatomy and physiology at the Academy, and became a trustee of the Academy and University) and of Charles Hartshorn (teacher at a nearby district school), offered an unfinished upstairs chamber in her house. The chamber was lathed and plastered by townsmen and fitted up for a schoolroom. The “fittings” were modest indeed. ” Church did return as promised and found nineteen students ready to pay their tuition. 2 On a nearby farm, Church found Jonathan Allen, a boy of thirteen.
