[4][3] Some of her works worthy of special commemoration include, The Blue Ribbon Society; The School Girls Rebellion; Christian Households; Familiar Lectures on Botany; Our Country and its Relation to the Present, Past and Future; and The Fireside Friend.

[6] Almira Hart was born on July 15, 1793, in Berlin, Connecticut, the youngest of 17 children,[1] growing up in an intellectual, independently thinking, and religious environment.

[4] This afforded her the ability to reset dislocated joints and perform other basic first aid for her family and community, in cases where a doctor was not immediately available.

[4] Lydia also studied the properties of plants, and she later discussed these observations with her daughter Almira, later on after her interest in botany had begun.

[4] The Hart home was an open place where members of the community would often gather to debate a vast array of subjects.

[4] Through her close friendship with the elderly mother of a bookseller, Almira had access to a vast array of books from an early age.

[3] In 1817, Almira married Simeon Lincoln and left her career for six years to be a housewife and mother to her three children.

[9] While teaching at Troy, her interest in science increased, and her botanical career began under the influence of Amos Eaton.

As a teacher, Almira noticed the lack of scientific books which catered to beginning college students, and determined to remedy the issue.

When the Troy Seminary added a laboratory for the study of chemistry, Almira worked hard to make sure it was stocked with chemicals, so that she and her students could take part in scientific experiments.

[4] She was thus able to give lectures on chemistry which were illustrated through experiments, thereby enriching the quality of scientific education at the Troy Seminary.

[4] Encouraged by Eaton and her sister's success and driven by her own financial needs, Lincoln began to write such textbooks in the late 1820s.

From Eaton, Almira learned much about several fields, including botany, chemistry, geology, and natural philosophy.

[3] During this time, Almira gained important managerial experience, and began to write down some of her own ideas for women's education.

[4] During her acting principalship, Almira expanded the property of the Troy Seminary to include room for the students to cultivate their own botanical specimens on the grounds.

Taking the name "Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps", she once again gave up her career to raise a second family but continued to write new textbooks on chemistry, natural philosophy, and education.

[13] In the spring of 1839, John Phelps had conditionally leased a building in Philadelphia, so that Almira could open her own school.

Eunice married and remained at West Chester, Ann moved to Camden, South Carolina to teach for her sister Stella, and Helen had her own school in Brooklyn, New York.

The Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Maryland, William R. Whittingham, had a personal interest in education and became involved in both schools.

Alfred Holmead transferred from Baltimore County to run Rock Hill and Bishop Whittingham, personally interviewed Almira Phelps to become the principal of the PFI.

Almira toured Europe in 1854 and her oldest daughter, Emma Phelps O'Brien, ran the PFI while she was gone.

After gaining her membership, she continued to write, lecture, and revise her textbooks until she died in Baltimore on July 15, 1884, her 91st birthday.

[7] She believed strongly that such a firm faith would be beneficial to future mothers, who could rear their children to honor God.