Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Whittlesey, Abigail Goodrich

WHITTLESEY, Abigail Goodrich, educator, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 29 Nov., 1788 ; d. in Col- chester, Conn., 16 July, 1858. She was a sister of Charles A. and Samuel G. Goodrich, was educated at Berlin, Conn., and married in 1808 the Rev. Samuel Whittlesey, who was pastor at New Pres- ton, Conn., for several years, then was steward for a short time of the American asylum for the deaf and dumb at Hartford, and afterward was associ- ated with her in conducting large female semina- ries in Utica and Canandaigua, N. Y. She began in 1832, while in Utica, the publication of the " Mother's Magazine," which she edited till about 1850, and subsequently revived under the title of " The Magazine for Mothers and Daughters."