Annie Chambers Ketchum
| Annie Chambers Bradford Ketchum | |
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Annie Chambers Ketchum (Sister Amabilis) - photo from B. O. Gaines, History of Scott County under the heading "A Kentucky Celebrity"
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| Born | Annelizah Chambers November 8, 1824 near Georgetown, Kentucky |
| Died | November 27, 1904 New York City |
| Fields | Botany, Botanical illustration, Education, Literature, Elocution |
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J. William Bradford (m. 1844) |
| Children | 2 children |
J. William Bradford (m. 1844)
Annie Chambers Ketchum (1824-1904) was an American educator, lecturer, and writer. She was a member of the New York Academy of Sciences.
Born near Georgetown on November 8, 1824, in Scott County, Kentucky, Annalizah "Annie" Chambers Ketchum was the youngest living daughter of Violetta Bradford and Major Benjamin Stuart Chambers. Major Chambers was one of the twenty who made the "forlorn hope" at the Battle of the River Thames in 1813, one of the six who came out alive from that massacre.Violetta was the eldest daughter of Judge Fielding Bradford of Kentucky who with his brother, John, founded the Kentucky Gazette. In early childhood while growing up at Acacia Grove (now called Cardome), she was often found poring over books which children usually count dull. In the classics she was equally at home with belles-lettres, natural sciences, and mathematics. In modern languages, music and drawing she excelled. She was tutored at home until she attended Georgetown Female College where she graduated with the M.A. degree.
On December 22, 1844, after her father's death, she married her cousin William Bradford, also known as Joseph Woods Bradford. Only a few years later and after the birth of two children, according to one account, Bradford died and she was left a widow. In another account, she separated from him and was divorced. Subsequently she was appointed in 1855 principal of the High School for Girls in Memphis, Tennessee, where she partnered with the Young Men's High School to establish a co-educational class in elocution. She met Charlotte Cushman, a famous actress who gave her lessons in public speaking. During school vacations she gave a series of popular lectures which then paid for the girls school's equipment for chemistry, physics and astronomy.
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