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Step-by-step explanation:
- born February 23, 1787 in Berlin, Connecticut
- died April 15, 1870 in Troy, New York
- parents Lydia Hinsdale Hart and Samuel Hart
- was the 16th of 17 kids
- began teaching in 1804
- in 1807 she moved to Middlebury, Vermont to manage a women's academy
- married John Willard
- in 1814 she opened a girls' school in her home
- struck by the contrast between the education she could offer her students and the curriculum provided to young men in college she wrote A Plan for Improving Female Education
- because of Governor DeWitt Clinton she moved to New York in 1819
- an American women's activist
- dedicated her life to education
- worked in several schools
- founded the first school for women's higher education the Troy Female Seminary in Troy, New York
- at the time of her death she was proclaimed the best known woman in America
- since it was founded the Emma Willard School has been one of the nation's leading schools for young women