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“Susan was a teacher. And she must have been a good one, because she was hired to be the headmistress at the Academy at Canajoharie, New York in 1846. It wasn’t her first teaching job; she had worked for several years at a Quaker boarding school, and in many ways she was a good stereotypical Quaker girl, still wearing intentionally plain dresses when she first came to town, her speech peppered with thees and thous. But while she worked at Canajoharie, her dresses became a bit more modern, maybe a bit more colorful, and most of her thees and thous turned to yous…
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Sources:
- https://books.google.com/books?id=eagEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA327#v=onepage&q&f=false
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_B._Anthony
- https://archive.org/stream/historyofwomansu01stanuoft#page/514/mode/2up
- http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.SEC.TCHR.FE.ZS?locations=US
- http://livingwage.mit.edu/
- Special thanks to the U.S. Post Office in Canajoharie, NY for being so kind when I called to ask how to pronounce the name of their town.