The Oread Institute was a women's college founded in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1849 by Eli Thayer. Worcester (ˈwʊstɚ is a City in the state of Massachusetts in the United States of America. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts ( is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States. Year 1849 ( MDCCCXLIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Eli Thayer (1819-1899 was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1857 to 1861 Before its closing in 1934, it was one of the oldest institutions of higher education for women in the United States. The following is a timeline of Women's colleges in the United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the According to the Worcester Women's History Project:
- "The Oread offered three levels of instruction: primary, academic and collegiate. The four-year collegiate program offered a classical, college-level curriculum and is thought to be the first institution of its kind exclusively for women in the country. It was modeled after the program at Brown University, Thayer’s alma mater" [1].
Two graduates of Oread, Sophia Packard and ornamental music teacher Harriet Giles, would eventually found Spelman College, named after Oread graduate Laura Spelman Rockefeller. Spelman College is a four-year liberal arts women's college located in Atlanta Georgia. Laura Celestia Spelman Rockefeller, ( September 9, 1839 &ndash March 12, 1915) (known as "Cettie") was a philanthropist Laura Spelman was the future wife of John D. Rockefeller, having attended Oread while her future husband, who dropped out of Cleveland's Central High School in the 1850s, worked as a clerk. John Davison Rockefeller ( July 8, 1839 &ndash May 23, 1937) was an American Industrialist and philanthropist One of Spelman's instructors was abolitionist John Brown. John Brown (May 9 1800 December 2 1859 was an American Abolitionist who advocated and practiced armed Insurrection as a means to end all Slavery
From 1898-1904 it was the Worcester Domestic Science Cooking School and was finally closed in 1934 [2].
External links
- Oread history from the Worcester Women's History Project
- Oread Institute history, hosted by Assumption College
- Information about the Oread Institute in an 1856 book about Worcester
- Information about the Oread Institute in an 1879 history of Worcester County
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