Emma Willard - Marriage and Family

Marriage and Family

While working at the academy in Middlebury, Vermont, Willard met her future husband John Willard. He was a physician and 28 years her senior. John Willard brought four children to the marriage from his previous marriages. His nephew, also named John Willard, lived with them while attending Middlebury College which gave Emma Willard much inspiration in forming her educational views. The couple had one son together named, John Willard Hart.

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