Flora Bridges
A young white woman with short curly hair
Flora Bridges, from a 1904 publication
BornFebruary 8, 1859
Salisbury, Illinois
DiedJune 13, 1912
South Hadley, Massachusetts
Occupation(s)College professor, college dean

Flora Bridges (February 8, 1859 – June 13, 1912) was an American college professor. She taught Greek and English at Mount Holyoke College, and was Dean of Women at Yankton College and Olivet College.

Early life

Bridges was born in Salisbury, Illinois, the daughter of Vernon Roe Bridges and Mary Elizabeth Boyd Bridges. Her father was a physician. She trained as a teacher, then earned a bachelor's degree in 1887 and a master's degree in 1888,[1] all at Oberlin College, with further studies at the University of Zürich and the University of Chicago.[2]

Career

Bridges was a high school principal in Mattoon, Illinois as a young woman. She taught Greek at Mount Holyoke College from 1887 to 1892. She taught English and Greek at Butler College (1894 to 1898),[3] Olivet College (1892 to 1893 and 1899 to 1901),[4] and Yankton College (1901 to 1904) and served as Dean of Women at Olivet and Yankton.[5] In 1905 she returned to Mount Holyoke to teach English.[2] She donated a large Greek-English lexicon to the college's library in 1906.[6] She worked closely with Marietta Kies at Mount Holyoke.[7]

Personal life

Bridges was living with her colleagues, sisters Clara F. Stevens and Alice Porter Stevens,[8] at the time of her death in 1912,[9] aged 53 years, from gastrointestinal tuberculosis.[10][11] Clara Stevens wrote a detailed obituary about Bridges for the Oberlin Alumni Magazine.[1] A portion of Bridges' personal scholarly library, mostly involving Greek language and literature, was donated to the Mount Holyoke College library after her death.[12]

References

  1. 1 2 Stevens, Clara F. (October 1912). "Flora Bridges". The Oberlin Alumni Magazine. 9: 7–10.
  2. 1 2 "Department Notes" The Mount Holyoke (October 1905): 69-70.
  3. ↑ "Personal". Indiana School Journal and Teacher. 39: 429. June 1894.
  4. ↑ Michigan (1893). "Olivet College". Joint Documents of the State of Michigan. p. 203.
  5. ↑ Michigan Department of Public Instruction (1900). Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of Michigan: With Accompanying Documents, for the Year ... Superintendent of Public Instruction. p. 129.
  6. ↑ "Library Notes". The Mount Holyoke. 16: 25. June 1906.
  7. ↑ Rogers, Dorothy G. (April 16, 2005). America's First Women Philosophers: Transplanting Hegel, 1860-1925. A&C Black. pp. 142–143. ISBN 978-0-8264-7475-9.
  8. ↑ Albino, Donna (April 1, 2001). Mount Holyoke College. Arcadia Publishing. p. 93. ISBN 978-0-7385-0518-3.
  9. ↑ "Educator Called by Death". The Indianapolis Star. June 24, 1912. p. 7. Retrieved June 24, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ "Miss Flora Bridges Dies in New England". Journal Gazette. June 15, 1912. p. 4. Retrieved June 24, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ↑ "Gastrointestinal tuberculosis" was listed as the cause of death on Bridges' official death certificate, which was signed by Clara F. Stevens as informant; from Ancestry
  12. ↑ "Gifts". Annual Report of the President to the Board of Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 30. November 1913.
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