Educating, Preface

Notes for the Preface (see page images at the Internet Archive)

p. v, "some knowledge of my own school work"

E.F.L. opened several Schools of Individual Instruction, based on the same plan as her advice for home teaching.

p. vi, "articles which I have written at the request of the Ladies' Home Journal and other periodicals"

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"Calvin N. Kendall"

Calvin Noyes Kendall (1858-1921), obituary:  Journal of the National Educational Association, Feb. 1922, p. 66

"the first public school of individual instruction"

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"the many teachers who have labored with me to bring this plan into the public schools"

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"my mother and father, from whom I learned whatever good things are set down here"

Mother:  Margaret Cecelia Lynch (nee Ward), 1845-1929.   Born in New York state to Irish parents.  Educated at the Sacred Heart Convent Academy, Manhattanville, NY.

Father:  Daniel Lynch, 1835-1918.  Born in Co. Cavan, Ireland; emigrated to the hamlet of Irishtown, in the town of Minerva, NY.  Owned a mill and a mine.  

The Lynches had 14 children, several of whom died in childhood.  E.F.L. was one of the middle children.