[2] After the 1837 death of Catherine Fiske, the school's founder, the seminary continued to operate until the early 1840s.

[3]Fiske taught the chemistry of making bread, demonstrated the astronomical and mathematical calculations of Isaac Newton and Pierre-Simon Laplace, and pointed out from the wildflowers of the valley of the Ashuelot River the principles to which Carl Linnaeus devoted himself.

[4] In 1814, Fiske and Mrs. Newcomb provided instruction in reading, writing, English grammar, composition, arithmetic, history, geography, with the use of maps and globes, drawing and painting in the various branches, and plain and ornamental needle work.

Fiske served as principal, while the teachers included Mary B. Ware and Eliza P. Withington.

Second: reading English grammar, geography with use of maps and globes, arithmetic, writing, bookkeeping and composition, and what the law required to qualify a young women to instruct a district school.