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Sophia B. Packard (January 3, 1824 – June 21, 1891) was an American educator, cofounder in Atlanta, Georgia, of a school for African American women that would eventually become Spelman College.

Biography

Sophia B. Packard was born in New Salem, Massachusetts, on January 3, 1824.^[1] She attended local district school and from the age of 14 alternated periods of study with periods of teaching in rural schools.

In 1850 she graduated from the Charlestown Female Seminary, and after teaching for several years she became preceptor and a teacher at the New Salem Academy in 1855. After successfully operating her own school in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, in partnership with her longtime companion, Harriet E.

Giles, Packard taught at the Connecticut Literary Institution in Suffield (1859–64). From 1864 to 1867 she was co-principal of the Oread Collegiate Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts. She then moved to Boston, where she secured in 18