Date Original
1872
Description
This notebook includes a journal, class notes, and poems written by Mollie Peay while she attended Patapsco Institute in 1872.
Biographical/Historical Note
Mollie Peay was born June 25, 1856, to Gordon and Susan Peay in Little Rock, Arkansas. Shortly before the Civil War, Gordon Peay organized the "Capital Guards." He became a colonel during the war and was severely wounded in the Battle of Shiloh. When Little Rock was occupied by the Union Army in 1863, the Peay family moved to Saline County until 1865. Mollie was educated in a Catholic convent until the war ended. She received further education at the Patapsco Institute in Ellicott, Maryland. Established in the 1830s, Patapsco was one of the first schools for women in the South. Mollie graduated in 1873 and returned to Little Rock, where she met and married her father's young banking partner, William Booker Worthen, in 1879. William Worthen founded the Worthen Bank of Little Rock. Mollie lived in Little Rock until her death on October 10, 1944.
Physical Description
Document, 8.5" x 11"
Geographical Area
Arkansas; Maryland
Language
English
Identifier
SMC.035.019
Resource Type
Text
Collection
Mollie Peay writings, SMC.035.019
Publisher
Arkansas State Archives
Contributing Entity
Arkansas State Archives
Recommended Citation
Mollie Peay writings, Arkansas State Archives, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Rights
Use and reproduction of images held by the Arkansas State Archives without prior written permission is prohibited. For information on reproducing images held by the Arkansas State Archives, please call 501-682-6900 or email at state.archives@arkansas.gov.
Disciplines
United States History
