Kalamazoo Legends: Lucinda Hinsdale Stone Kalamazoo Rotary Club January 24, 2005
Lucinda Stone • Born Lucinda Hinsdale - Sept. 30, 1814 • Last of 12 children • Education – Hinesburg Academy, Hinesburg, VT – Middlebury Female Seminary • Married James Stone in 1840 in Grand Rapids, MI – Former principal of Hinesburg Academy
Lucinda and J. A. B. Stone
Lucinda and J. A. B. Stone • J. A. B. appointed as Minister of the First Baptist Church and President of Kalamazoo College (The Old Branch merged with the Kalamazoo Literary Institute) in 1843 • Lucinda became the first principal of the Female Department • Classes were held at the Old Branch, later Upper and Lower Halls (South St. and Michigan Ave. )
The Old Branch
1861 -1862 Catalogue
1861 -1862 Faculty of Female Department Mrs. L. H. Stone Principal, and Teacher of History and English Literature
View of Lower Hall and Upper Hall
Lower Hall Classroom
Lucinda and J. A. B. Stone • Men and Women’s departments remained separate until 1868 • Men and women moved easily between the two departments, taking courses at both during the Stone era
Lucinda and J. A. B. Stone • James and Lucinda had 3 sons – Clement Walker – Horatio Hackett – James Helm • Editor-in-Chief of the Detroit Tribune • Editor-in-Chief of the Detroit Daily News
Contemporaries Susan B. Anthony
Contemporaries Frederick Douglass
Contemporaries Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lucinda and J. A. B Stone – ca 1855
Kalamazoo College • • Student enrollment declines after 1857 Tougher entrance requirements Depressed economy Financial mismanagement Shift in the Baptist leadership Unpopular liberalism of Mrs. Stones resign under fire in 1863
Lucinda and J. A. B. Stone • James Stone – Editor of the Kalamazoo Daily Telegraph – First President of the Michigan Publisher’s Association – Under President Grant became Kalamazoo Postmaster • Their house burned to the ground in 1866 and they moved to 144 E. Lovell, the site of the Kalamazoo Gazette • Lucinda had time to devote her attention to the outside world • She became a “teacher at large”
Lucinda Stone • Conducted a private school at her home for young women • Organized travelling schools – Eight educational trips to Europe – Trips were 12 -18 months in duration – At age 76, Lucinda led a trip to Egypt, Syria and Palestine
Lucinda Stone • Worked to enroll women at the University of Michigan – Madelon Stockwell first female student • Worked to hire women faculty at the University of Michigan • Lectured for the Women’s Suffrage Movement • Anti-Slavery Movement
Madelon Stockwell
Lucinda and J. A. B. Stone
Lucinda Stone • University of Michigan – Received an honorary doctorate in June 1890 – Received the second doctorate given to a woman from the school
Mother of Clubs • Founded – Twentieth Century Club – Literary clubs for women throughout Michigan • Column in many national newspapers called “Club Talks” – Frederick Douglass Club for African American men and women • Helped organize the Women’s Press Association in 1890 • Chair of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs
World’s Columbian Exposition Chicago, May – October 1893
Fairground Map Woman’s Building
Lucinda Stone • Member of People’s Church in 1894 • Friend of Caroline Bartlett Crane • Organized a club for African American men for the church • Built up the Channing Library • Lucinda died in 1900 at 85
Lucinda Stone – ca 1895
Acknowledgements • Gail Griffin, Professor of English, Kalamazoo College • Elizabeth Smith, Archivist, Kalamazoo College • Kathryn Lightcap, Graphics/Multimedia Designer, Kalamazoo College • Ladies Library Association • First Baptist Church • Jennifer Thomas, Archivist and Librarian, Albion College
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