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Eliza Emily Chappell Porter (November 5, 1807 – January 1, 1888) was the first public school teacher in Chicago, at Fort Dearborn. She established normal schools, educated settlers and American Indians at Mackinac Island, aided the wounded during the American Civil War as a member of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, participated in the Underground Railroad, and taught freedmen. ==Early years== Porter was born on November 5, 1807 in Geneseo, New York. Porter's father, Robert Chappell, was supposedly the descendant of "Huguenots banished from France under the Edict of Nantes in 1688, who found refuge, with their persecuted brethren, in England".〔Porter, 9.〕 Robert moved to Franklin County, New York, then to Geneseo, Livingston County, New York.〔Porter, 10.〕 Eliza Chappell was the eighth child born to Robert and Elizabeth Kneeland Chappell.〔 She was described as a "bonny child, plump and fair, with curling auburn hair, and bright grey eyes".〔 Robert Chappell was widowed shortly after Porter's birth. Burdened with seven young children at home, he sent Porter to live with her niece, Mrs. Bower of Franklin County, New York.〔Porter, 12.〕 Bower wanted to adopt Porter, but Porter insisted on living with the family as a "little cousin". Porter "easily () her boy cousins in study, she was ambitious to rival them in outdoor sports".〔Porter, 13.〕 By age twelve, Porter returned home; at age fourteen, she joined the Presbyterian church. Porter boarded with a reverend's family in Rochester, New York, at the age of fifteen, and attended school. By age sixteen, Porter took charge of a neighboring school as a teacher.〔Porter, 18.〕 She eagerly read any books that were available to her.〔Porter, 30.〕 Porter felt it was important to educate toddlers. "I am more and more convinced that parents and those who have the care of children do not regard with sufficient interest the first three years," she wrote in her journal.〔Porter, 53.〕
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