[5] Mary Lydia Leggett was born in Cayuga County, New York,[a] April 23, 1852.

[2] She was educated at Monticello Seminary in Godfrey, Illinois,[2] and was the first woman to graduate from Harvard Divinity School.

Her church in Green Harbor, Massachusetts, was founded by the granddaughter of Daniel Webster, whose summer home was in that hamlet.

Leggett's study contained the office table on which Webster penned his speeches.

George Willis Cooke,[6] who died a week after their wedding, at her home in Revere, Massachusetts.