Notes for: Harriet Robinson HARRINGTON

She was a member of the class of 1872 at Vassar College (the "first graduating class") and when widowed, began work as a teacher. In her early years she was required to teach Greek even though she had no background in it. She enrolled in a course in the language and was usually only a few days ahead of her students. She returned to Bennington a few years after her husbands death to live and raise her two children.