Hayden, Ida F. (Ida Frances), -1920

Person

Staff Only

Dates

Existence: d. 1920

Biographical Statement

Ida F. Hayden was a teacher, who served as principal of the grammar school at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. Hayden, originally from Massachusetts, graduated from Oberlin College in 1893. She was employed at Tillotson Institute in Austin, Texas, from roughly 1893 to 1895. She may have married fellow Oberlin alumnus James Jesse Hildrup of Belvidere, Illinois, in March 1895, and moved to Rhode Island. However, she is listed as an evening school teacher in the 1896 annual report of the State Board of Education of Rhode Island. By 1908, she was listed as the principal of the grammar school at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, and continued to be listed as a teacher there until 1920. She died in Akron, Ohio in June 1920 from Brights Disease.

Citation:

Author: Christopher Harter

Citation:

Congregational Yearbook, 1896.

Twenty-sixth Annual Report of the State Board of Education of Rhode Island, January 1896.

American Missionary, Vol. 50, No. 12 (December 1896).

Oberlin Alumni Magazine, October 1908 and January 1921

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Ida F. Hayden diary

Collection — Folder: 1

Identifier: 2077

Scope and Contents The travel diary of Ida F. Hayden consists of 84 handwritten pages detailing her travels in southern and eastern Africa, parts of the Middle East, and Europe from January to May 1907. Traveling by steam ship with companions, Hayden details her travels, the weather, interactions with fellow travelers, and visits to cities and towns along the way. The diary begins on 4 January 1907 with Hayden's departure from Greytown, South Africa, to Durban. She travels on the ...

Dates: Created: 1907; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1968

Found in: Amistad Research Center / Ida F. Hayden diary