Holyoke Family Genealogy - Person Sheet
Holyoke Family Genealogy - Person Sheet
NameAnna Holyoke CUTTS 
, F
, FBirth17 Jun 1835
Death28 Jun 1889
FatherHampden CUTTS , M (1802-1875)
MotherMary Pepperrell Sparhawk JARVIS , F (1809-1879)
Spouses
Marriage24 Aug 1861
Notes for Anna Holyoke CUTTS
• Her gifts in music, art, literature and the sciences were evident at an early age. Her first literary production was at age 10, a memoir of lady living nearby who had recently died. She easily learned vocal and instrumental music, drawing and painting. For instruments, she preferred the violin, but was much more proficient on the piano. Between age 18 and 20 she wrote both prose and poetry, as well as instrumental music.
• She studied Latin and French, rhetoric and history, and graduated from an academy in Thetford, Vermont, in 1855. Before graduation, she taught in a neighboring district school, and in the fall of 1856 went to Warsaw, Virginia, to teach, staying there one year.
• She became interested in the movement to purchase George Washington’s estate, Mount Vernon. The piece she wrote about it, under the pseudonym of Ernest, was printed in the Vermont Chronicle.
• In 1859, when visiting Hanover, New Hampshire, she met Abel Trumbell Howard, a student at Dartmouth College and native of West Hartford, Vermont. They were engaged the following year, and married in August 1861. The earlier part of their married life, the two taught in Walpole, New Hampshire; Brattleboro, Vermont; Brooklyn, New York; and Chester, New Jersey. After this, they were for seven years principals of a large boarding school in Matawan, New Jersey. In the fall of 1873, they returned to Brooklyn, which became their long term home. During this period, Anna wrote little. Only after their last move to Brooklyn, where she spent two thirds of her married life, did she begin to publish extensively.
• Periodicals for which she wrote frequently include The Nursery, the Church Union, The Christian at Work, Mother’s Magazine, The Woman’s Journal, The Household, and Our Home Magazine.
• Besides literary endeavors, she found outlets for her energy in the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, the Woman’s Suffrage Association, the Brooklyn Woman’s Indian Association, and the Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
• In the last few years of her life, she took up musical composition again, and wrote several hymns.
• She studied Latin and French, rhetoric and history, and graduated from an academy in Thetford, Vermont, in 1855. Before graduation, she taught in a neighboring district school, and in the fall of 1856 went to Warsaw, Virginia, to teach, staying there one year.
• She became interested in the movement to purchase George Washington’s estate, Mount Vernon. The piece she wrote about it, under the pseudonym of Ernest, was printed in the Vermont Chronicle.
• In 1859, when visiting Hanover, New Hampshire, she met Abel Trumbell Howard, a student at Dartmouth College and native of West Hartford, Vermont. They were engaged the following year, and married in August 1861. The earlier part of their married life, the two taught in Walpole, New Hampshire; Brattleboro, Vermont; Brooklyn, New York; and Chester, New Jersey. After this, they were for seven years principals of a large boarding school in Matawan, New Jersey. In the fall of 1873, they returned to Brooklyn, which became their long term home. During this period, Anna wrote little. Only after their last move to Brooklyn, where she spent two thirds of her married life, did she begin to publish extensively.
• Periodicals for which she wrote frequently include The Nursery, the Church Union, The Christian at Work, Mother’s Magazine, The Woman’s Journal, The Household, and Our Home Magazine.
• Besides literary endeavors, she found outlets for her energy in the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, the Woman’s Suffrage Association, the Brooklyn Woman’s Indian Association, and the Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
• In the last few years of her life, she took up musical composition again, and wrote several hymns.