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PRESTON, Mary Otis
1857 - 1933 (75 years) Has no ancestors and no descendants in this family tree.
1859 - 1929 (69 years)-
Name PRESTON, Mary Otis Birth 20 Jul 1857 Granby, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA 
Gender Female Death 29 Apr 1933 South Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA Person ID I3525 Edgoose Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
Family SPAFFORD, William Swain, b. 1 Mar 1859, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England d. 9 Feb 1929, USA (Age 69 years) Marriage 1890 USA Family ID F1691 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
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MARY OTIS PRESTON 1857-1933
"Mary Otis Preston was born in Granby, Massachusetts, on July 20, 1857. Her parents were Calvin Preston, a farmer, and Sarah Montague Moody Preston. After attending local and district schools, she entered Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1876 annd graduated in 1879. She then worked as "boy's attendant" at the Clarke Institute for Deaf Mutes in Northampton, Massachusetts for two years. In the summer of 1882 Spafford went to Wellington, South Africa to work at Huguenot Seminary, the first institution for the higher education of women in that country. She taught Latin, physics, and a number of other subjects, managed the school's financial accounts, and served as acting principal for a short time. She returned to the United States in 1889 and in 1890 married William Swain Spafford, whom she had met when he was stationed in South Africa with the South Irish Artillery. They had four children. She died in South Hadley, Massachusetts on April 29, 1933 at the age of seventy-five."
(http://www.mtholyoke.edu/lits/library/arch/col/msrg/mancol/ms0717r.ht m)
(e-mail from Mary Bloemker - mdbloemker@gmail.com)