Lucretia Crocker

Although there is not much information available about Lucretia Crocker's childhood, we know that her family has long standing roots in New England.

After leaving Massachusetts she continued her teaching career in Ohio where she started a job as an educator,[4] from 1857 to 1859, she was professor of mathematics and astronomy at Antioch College.

[4] In 1859, she returned to Boston to care for her parents, and become involved in educational activities there at the Newbury Street School.

[4] From 1865 for some years she assisted in selecting the American Unitarian Association's Sunday School books.

From 1873 to about 1876 she was head of the science department of the Society to Encourage Studies at Home, serving on the board of school supervisors from 1876 to 1886.

[4] Throughout her life, Lucretia Crocker achieved various accomplishments as one of the first well known female educators in the United States.

[6] Around this time her and Mary L Hall co-authored her first book Our World (1864).,[4] Crocker founded the Women's Education Association in 1872.

[4] Crocker served the disabled as a member of the executive committee for the Boston School for Deaf Mutes.