mshm062 Elizabeth Slater Rogers correspondence, 1893-1895. Finding Aid Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections
South Hadley, MA
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 Collection Overview Rogers, Elizabeth Slater, 1865-1918. Elizabeth Slater Rogers correspondence 1893-1895. MS 0580 LD 7092.8 Slater 1 box (0.42 linear ft.) Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections
South Hadley, MA
Rogers, Elizabeth Slater, 1865-1918; College teacher. Mount Holyoke College faculty member, 1892-1896. Papers consist of letters to her fiance, George Benjamin Rogers, a graduate student at Harvard University. Primarily discussing her social and academic activities and their marriage plans. English. Biographical Note

Elizabeth Slater was born on February 16, 1865. She received her A.B. and A.M. from Wellesley in 1888 and 1894, respectively. She was a professor of Greek at Mount Holyoke College from 1892-1896. In June of 1896 she married George Benjamin Rogers, a graduate of Williams College. They moved to Exeter, New Hampshire, where Mr. Rogers taught at an Academy. They had two daughters, Constance and Katherine. Constance Rogers graduated from Wellesley in 1919. Elizabeth Slater Rogers died on July 6, 1918 in Exeter, New Hampshire.

 Scope and Contents of the Collection

The Elizabeth Slater Rogers Correpondence contain letters exchanged by Slater, a teacher of Greek at Mount Holyoke College, and her fiance, George Benjamin Rogers, a graduate student at Harvard University, which discuss their social and academic activities, health, finances and plans and expectations for marriage.

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