Juliana McLachlan-Gardiner

Um, he was an attorney by practice, by trade.

Um, her mother, uh, Juliana Gardiner, um, her background is not as distinguished as the Gardiner clan, the Gardiner family, um, but both of her parents, uh, believed very much in educating their daughters.

Uh, not only educating their sons, her brothers, she had two brothers, they went to Princeton.

Uh, Julia had a younger sister.

Uh, they believed in, in a way similar to what a lot of American parents were beginning to believe by the early 1830s, moving away from that concept of Republican motherhood and really educating their daughters in, in substantial ways.

So they firmly believed in education.

Uh, Julia went to Madame Schederer's Institute for Young Ladies in New York City.

And her parents, I think, really set her up well- Um, w- you know, one of the things that, that we talk about at my college is being a lifelong learner, and she really set her, uh, she was really set up by her parents to be a lifelong learner.

Um, he was an attorney by practice, by trade.

Um, her mother, uh, Juliana Gardiner, um, her background is not as distinguished as the Gardiner clan, the Gardiner family.

Um, but both of her parents, uh, believed very much in educating their daughters.

Uh, not only educating their sons, her brothers.

They went to Princeton.

Uh, Julia had a younger sister.

Uh, they believed in, in a way similar to what a lot of American parents were beginning to believe by the early 1830s, moving away from that concept of Republican motherhood and really educating their daughters in, in substantial ways.

So they firmly believed in education.