Harriet Bishop
(1817-1883)
In 1847, Harriet Bishop became St Paul's first public school teacher when she moved from Vermont to what would become the territory and eventually the state of Minnesota. As a devout Baptist committed to social reform, she helped establish many charitable societies in St Paul and promoted the causes of temperance and woman suffrage. She played a vital role in the congregation of St Paul's First Baptist Church and opened the first Sunday school in St Paul upon her arrival. She chronicled many of these adventures in her book Floral Home, Or First Years of Minnesota.
Harriet Bishop Resources
- Extended Harriet Bishop Biography
- Harriet Bishop in the MN150 Wiki
- MHS Library History Topics Page for Harriet Bishop
- MHS Library Resource: Floral Home or First Years of Minnesota
- MHS Library Resource: Minnesota, Then and Now
- MHS Library Resource: Dakota War Whoop
- MHS Library Resource: First Baptist Church Records
- MHS Visual Resources for Harriet Bishop
- Minnesota History Magazine Resources for Harriet Bishop
- Minnesota Place Names Entry for Harriet Bishop and Harriet Island
- MHS Library History Topics Page for Women's Suffrage
Related Historic Sites
Related Books and Products
- Floral Home, or First Years of Minnesota
- Privilege for Which We Struggled
- Women of Minnesota
- Schoolhouses of Minnesota
- Making Minnesota Territory, 1849-1858
- Map of the Territory of Minnesota, 1849
