Amanda C. Northrop – Dr. Bob’s Foster
Sister – Research Draft
Dick B.
Copyright 2012
Anonymous. All rights reserved
[Research Work by Ken B.]
In our work preparing the Dr. Bob Core Library at North
Congregational Church of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, we began to see references to
Dr. Bob’s foster sister, Amanda C. Northrop. There were indications she lived
with the Smith family. There were indications that she attended North
Congregational Church with Judge and Mrs. Walter P. Smith, Robert Holbrook
Smith, and Mrs. Smith’s mother. See Dick B. and Ken B. Dr. Bob of Alcoholics Anonymous, His Excellent Training in the Good
Book as a Youngster in Vermont. (www.dickb.com/drbobofaa.shtml)
Little did we know much important information, we were going
to find about Amanda in connection with our work on the September 2012
Alcoholics Anonymous History Workshops in Vermont.
But, piece by piece, my son Ken began unearthing the
following facts of importance to Alcoholics Anonymous History:
(1) Amanda was a
teacher. (2) She taught for a short time at St. Johnsbury Academy where Judge
Smith was an Examiner; where Mrs. Susan Smith, his wife, had matriculated, had
taught, and had remained active as an historian and in alumni affairs; and
where Dr. Bob had attended and graduated. (3) She had also taught at the famous
Christian Evangelist Dwight L. Moody schools at Mount Hermon in Northfield,
Massachusetts. (4) This was clearly another link in the Christian upbringing
which was part of Dr. Bob’s youngster years in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. (5)
More, in the form of correspondence and content, may become available; and, if
so, will be included with this material in our forthcoming biography The Prince of all Twelfth-steppers: A
Biography of A.A. Co-founder Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith, M.D. [a working title].
Meanwhile, we record the following documentation:
Amanda C. Northrop
The Social Studies: American Historical
Association, National Board for Historical Service, National Council for the
Social Studies [is on the cover of the bound volumes]
The History Teacher’s Magazine, Volume
III, Number 6, Philadelphia June, 1912
(p. 136: “List of Members of History
Teachers’ Associations. . . .
“Association of History Teachers’ of the
Middle States and Maryland”)
p. 137:
“Amanda C. Northrop, Normal College, New York City”
[Source:
http://books.google.com/books?id=BHoVAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA137&lpg=PA137&dq=%22Amanda+C.+Northrop%22+%22Normal+College%22&source=bl&ots=BnNjhcsnBK&sig=WmHDgHo4tHI0VtOsoeJ0qPunyWQ&hl=en&ei=lDNxSrHbKIPGsQOZnaXZCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1 ; accessed 7/29/09]
Amanda Carolyn Northrop, “The Successful
Women of America,” Popular Science Monthly, 64 (January 1904, 239-44.
[Source:
http://books.google.com/books?id=dZ8VAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA239&lpg=PA239&dq=%22Amanda+Carolyn+Northrop%22&source=bl&ots=nJcMQPrMOe&sig=P6YzuUmG7sGm46FY_HTT7YqgVhI&hl=en&ei=d89xSqapJoH-tQPEvPjzCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7
; accessed 7/30/09]
“American Family Immigration History
Center at Ellis Island”
First Name: Amanda C.
Last Name: Northrop
Ethnicity:
Last Place of Residence: New York, N.Y.
Date of Arrival: Aug 01, 1923
Age at Arrival: 64y Gender:
F Marital Status: S
Ship of Travel: President Adams
Port of Departure: United States
Manifest Line Number: 0023
[Source: http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/search/passRecord.asp?LNM=NORTHROP&PLNM=NORTHROP&last_kind=0&TOWN=null&SHIP=null&RF=263&pID=602196010136&MID=05488420100935106112&
; accessed 7/30/09]
“Northups & Families”
ID: I11670
Name: Amanda Northrop
Sex: F
Birth: 19 JUN 1858
Death: Unknown
Fact 6: Teacher
ADDR: Northfield Massachusetts USA
[[The Northrup-Northrop Genealogy (1908)
says “resides at Northfield, Mass.” ]]
Father: Abraham Northrop b: 30 OCT 1811
in Fairfield, Vermont
Mother: Rebecca Potter b: 19 DEC 1824
[Source: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=rnorthorp&id=I11670
; accessed 7/30/09]
“Northrups & Families”
ID:
I11655
Name: Abraham Northop
Sex: M
ALIA: Abraham /Northrup/
Birth: 30 OCT 1811 in Fairfield, Vermont
Death: 25 JUL 1864 in Fairfield, Vermont
Marriage 1 Rebecca Potter b: 19 DEC 1824
Married:
9 FEB 1847 in Bakersfield, Franklin Co., Vermont
Children
1.
Ella A. Northrop b: 28 DEC 1848 in Vermont
2.
Jane B. Northrop b: 15 MAR 1852 in Vermont
3.
Octavius P. Northrop b: 14 AUG 1855 in Vermont
4.
Amanda Northrop b: 19 JUN 1858
5.
Abbie L. Northrop b: 28 MAY 1862 in Vermont
[Source:
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=rnorthorp&id=I11655
; accessed 7/30/09]
One of the sources for the information
on the family of Abraham Northrop (including Amanda) is: A. Judd Northrup, The
Northrup-Northrop Genealogy (New York: The Grafton Press, 1908), 177-78.
Available online: “Abraham Northrop, 177-78” http://books.google.com/books?id=PMI6AAAAMAAJ&dq=Northrup-Northrop+Genealogy&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=VPvMnJkGb-&sig=WU7MP50e4k0E7H6uHybaCEhBjPo&hl=en&ei=1s9xSq6DBY-KsgOCytCaDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3
; accessed 7/30/09]
Census – US Federal 1860
Vermont – Franklin [County] – The Town
of Fletcher, page 3:
1. Northrop,
Amanda (b: 1858*)
a. Household:
Northop, Abraham (b: 1812*)
Northrop, Rebecca (b: 1825*)
Northrop, Ella (b: 1849*)
Northrop, Jane (b: 1853*)
[Source:
http://www.footnote.com/search.php?s_given-name=Amanda&s_surname=Northrop&xid=250sub%3DBoxFirstRun&query=&x=41&y=17&nav=4294966299&id=33169310
; accessed 7/30/09]
Abraham Northop
Birth: unknown
Death: Jul.
28, 1864
Age 52
yrs., 9 mos.
Wife: Rebekah
Potter d 1880
Burial: Bradley
Cemetery, Fairfield, Franklin County, Vermont
Rebekah Potter Northrop
Birth: unknown
Death: Oct.
15, 1880
Wife of Abraham Northrop age 55 yrs., 10
mos.
Family links: Spouse: Abraham Northrop (____ - 1864)
Burial: Bradley
Cemetery, Fairfield, Franklin County, Vermont
American Historical Association:
Officers, Committees, Act of Incorporation, Constitution, List of Members,
February, 1904
(In the “List of Members” section—which
is alphabetically arranged by last name)
Northrop, Amanda Carolyn, 315 Riverside
Drive, New York, N. Y. (p. 54)
[Source:
http://ia341030.us.archive.org/0/items/officersactofinc1904ameruoft/officersactofinc1904ameruoft.pdf
; accessed 7/30/09]
(The same listing as below is also found
on page 57 of the February, 1905, equivalent document)
(Her address is given as “19 East 41st
St., New York, N. Y.” in the February, 1907, equivalent)
(American Historical Association Handbook,
1911: p. 85: “Instr. hist., Nor. Coll.,
19 E. 41st St., New York, N. Y. me, p”
[“me” = mediaeval history, western Europe; “p” = political science,
government, and law])
Woman’s Board of Missions. Receipts from
August 18 to September 18, 1894
Vermont. Vermont Branch
“St. Johnsbury, North Ch. . . . Miss
Amanda C. Northrop”
[Source: Life and Light for Woman, Vol.
XXIV. November, 1894. No. 11., 531:
http://books.google.com/books?id=W7EPAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA531&dq=%22Amanda+C.+Northrop%22+Smith&ei=GvFxSp3aGIrEkgS1u4XlDg
; accessed 7/30/09]
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Syllabus and Index: The Journal of
American History, Volume X, 1916
The Founders of the National Historical
Society
Original Life-Member Founders (pages
90-96)
Original State Advisory Board Founders
(pages 96-97)
Original Founders (pages 97ff.)
New York (pages 121-25)
Northrop, Miss Amanda Carolyn, New York
City. Assistant Professor of History Hunter College; Member American Historical
Association, National Geographical Society.
[page 124]
[Source:
http://ia340914.us.archive.org/0/items/journalofamerica10natiuoft/journalofamerica10natiuoft.pdf
; accessed 7/30/09]
The Saint Johnsbury Academy
Listing of trustees, teachers, and
students
Academical Year Ending June 1883
Northrop, Miss Amanda C. Assistant for the year
[Source:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nekg3/schools/school_st-johnsbury-academy-1883.htm
; accessed 7/30/09]
The Saint Johnsbury Academy
Listing of trustees, teachers, and
students
Academical Year Ending June 1884
Saint Johnsbury, Vermont
Northrop,
Miss Amanda C. Teacher of Mathematics,
English & Penmanship
[Source:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nekg3/schools/school_st-johnsbury-academy-1884.htm
; accessed 7/30/09]
Hand-Book of the Northfield Seminary and
the Mt. Hermon School (Chicago: Fleming H. Revell, 1889)
“1885-86 [centered subheading]
“With the seventh year came as new
teachers, Mary C. Strong, B.S.; Lizzie M. Larned, B.A.; Amanda C. Northrop
(Wellesley); . . .” [page 43]
[Source:
http://books.google.com/books?id=YJU4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA196&lpg=PA196&dq=%22Northfield+Seminary%22+Northrop+Amanda&source=bl&ots=XeysT_qD-l&sig=m_hp4V1n4vB-ZN4NSUeHd1cHbPM&hl=en&ei=9RBySsfKGJCIswO_h9HHCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q=Northrop&f=false
; accessed 7/30/09]
Under the centered subheading of
“Teachers” on page 196 is stated:
Northrop, Amanda C. Wellesley . . . . 1885-89
[Source:
http://books.google.com/books?id=YJU4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA196&lpg=PA196&dq=%22Northfield+Seminary%22+Northrop+Amanda&source=bl&ots=XeysT_qD-l&sig=m_hp4V1n4vB-ZN4NSUeHd1cHbPM&hl=en&ei=9RBySsfKGJCIswO_h9HHCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q=Northrop&f=false
; accessed 7/30/09]
The Wellesley Magazine, Vol. III.
Wellesley, June 29, 1895. No. 9
[Centered subheading: “Annual Luncheon
of the New York Wellesley Club” (page 505)
“The Wellesley Club of New York held its
second annual luncheon at the Plaza Hotel, fifth Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street,
on Saturday, May 11, at 1 o’clock.” ]
Miss Amanda C. Northrop, ’84-85, has
been teaching in Mrs. Lockwood’s school, 150 East 37th Street, New York. [page 506]
[Source:
http://books.google.com/books?id=gLMAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA506&lpg=PA506&dq=Wellesley+Northrop+%22Amanda+C.%22&source=bl&ots=4psSpOEi3u&sig=EH_C3OLt1u8Tlf590AUUnvnqJnc&hl=en&ei=qRNySuamC4vssQPjxrHaCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#v=onepage&q=&f=false
; accessed 7/30/09]
The Wellesley Magazine, Vol. VIII.
Wellesley, June, 1900. No. 9.
Miss Amanda C. Northrop, Sp. ’84-85, has
obtained a position in the Misses Rayson’s School, 176-180 West 75th Street,
New York City [page 526]
[Rayson’s (Misses) School Library,
176-180 West 75th Street, New York City.
Miss Amy Rayson, Principal.
History.—Founded 1895; school library;
supported by School.]
“Hunter College History &
Milestones”
February 14, 1870: First classes are
held on rented premises, above a carriage shop, at 691 Broadway. Hunter’s
official founding date.
April 26, 1870: State Legislature
changes name of the Female Normal and High School to Normal College of the City
of New York.
1902: The Normal College receives
provisional Regents accreditation and state recognition of its degrees.
December 23, 1908: Full State
recognition of Normal College B.A. makes degree equal to degrees awarded at
other women’s colleges.
April 4, 1914: State Legislature
authorizes change of college name to Hunter College of The City of New York.
February 1920: Hunter celebrates its
50th Anniversary
[Source:
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/news/milestones.shtml ; accessed 7/30/09]
Gloria
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