WHITTLESEY, Abigail Goodrich, educator, born in Ridgefield, Connecticut, 29 November, 1788; died in Colchester, Connecticut, 16 July, 1858. She was a sister of Charles A., and Samuel G. Goodrich, was educated at Berlin, Connecticut, and married in 1808 the Reverend Samuel Whittlesey, who was pastor at New Preston, Connecticut, for several years, then was steward for a short time of the American asylum for the deaf and dumb at Hartford, and afterward was associated with her in conducting large female seminaries in Utica and Canandaigua, New York She began in 1832, while in Utica, the Implication of the "Mother's Magazine," which she edited till about 1850, and subsequently revived under the title of "The Magazine for Mothers and Daughters."