Phebe Ann Hanaford

HANAFORD, Phebe Ann (née Coffin).  b. Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, 6 May 1829; d. Rochester, New York, 2 June 1921. She was the daughter of a Quaker ship owner, from an old New England family. She studied at the local school, and with an Episcopalian clergyman, Ethan Allen, who taught her Latin and Mathematics. While still in her ’teens, she became a teacher at her old school at Siasconset, Massachusetts. In 1849 she married Joseph H. Hanaford (nda), a homeopathic physician and teacher. He was ten years older than she was. In the previous year, according to JJ, p. 1568, he had arranged the first edition of Phineas Stowe’s (1812-1868), Ocean Melodies and Seamen’s Companion (Boston, 1849)...