Nutting, Emily L. (1816-1892)

Name:

Nutting, Emily L. (1816-1892)

Title:

Teacher, Ornamnental Arts, New Hampton Academical and Thological Seminary, 1833, 1834
Teacher, Ornamnental Arts, Tuscumbia Female Seminary, Tuscumbia, AL, 1837, 1838.

Other Names:

Nutting, Emily Lucretia
Burruss, Emily L.

Born:

12/08/1816

Birthplace:

Boston, MA

Died:

01/17/1892

Death Location:

Shreveport, LA

Residence:

Boston, MA 1816- 1835,
New Hampton, NH 1833, 1834
Tuscumbia, AL 1837-1850
Shreveport, LA 1850-1892

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Teacher
Artist
Miniature Painter

Father:

Nutting, Samuel (1782-1832)

Mother:

Gookin, Catherine (1781-1845)

Relations:

Sister of Benjamin F. Nutting (1803-1887), Boston, artist

Spouse:

Burrus, John Crenshaw (1787-1863), Maay 27, 1838, Tuscumbia, AL

Children:

Ellen Katherine, born 1839; died 1900
Eunice, born 1843; died 1930

Notes:

Isabella M. E. Blandin, History of Higher Education of Women in the South Prior to 1860. (New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1909), 64-65.

Alcee Fortier, Editor. Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Person, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Volume III. (Atlanta, Georgia: Southern Historical Association, 1909), n.p.

George C. Groce and David H. Wallace, The New-York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America, 1564-1860. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1957), 474.

"New Hampton Institution" Advertisement, Christian Watchman, Boston, MA, November 8, 1833, 2.

"New Hampton Institution" Advertisement, Christian Watchman, Boston, MA, May 2, 1834, 4.

"Tuscumbia Female Seminary" Advertisement, North Albamian, Tuscumbia, AL, January 6, 1837, 1.

Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, LA