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Laura M. Thurston

THURSTON, Laura M., poet, born in Norfolk, Litchfield County, Connecticut, in December, 1812; died in New Albany, Indiana, 21 July, 1842. Her maiden name was Hawley. She was educated for the profession of teaching at the Hartford female seminary, and taught in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and New Milford and Hartford, Connecticut, removed to New Albany in order to take charge of an academy, and in September, 1839, married Franklin Thurston, a merchant of that place. She contributed to newspapers and magazines over the signature of "Viola." Her poems, some of which were descriptive of nature and some didactic, were highly esteemed, and many of them are preserved in Rufus W. Griswold's and other collections of American poetry.

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