This is a transcription of the Frances (Stewart) Mosher biography from New Hampshire Women: A Collection of Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Daughters and Residents of the Granite State, Who are Worthy Representatives of their Sex in the Various Walks and Conditions of Life, The New Hampshire Publishing Co., Concord, NH, 1895, page 39.

Frances (Stewart) Mosher

FRANCES STEWART MOSHER, A. M., Professor of French and History in Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Mich., is the daughter of the late Rev. I. D. Stewart, for many years connected with the New Hampton Institution, and afterwards with the Morning Star Printing Establishment at Dover, a well known clergyman of the Free Baptist denomination, and Elizabeth Rice, daughter of Isaac Rice, Esq., for thirty years postmaster of Henniker, N. H. She was graduated from New Hampton Institution in 1864, attended Mrs. Hodges’s finishing school in Boston, and spent two years at Mt. Holyoke Seminary. She was a teacher in Dover from 1868 to 1871, when she was united in marriage with Hon. George F. Mosher, LL. D., then editor of the Morning Star of that city, subsequently United States Consul in France, and later in Germany; but for several years past President of Hillsdale College. Possessed of strong and well-cultivated literary tastes, Mrs. Mosher had charge of the young people’s papers, The Little Star and The Myrtle, issued under the auspices of the Free Baptist denomination, and assisted on the Morning Star from 1872 till 1881, when she accompanied her husband abroad, still contributing to several newspapers.  In 1887 she accepted her present position in Hillsdale College. She was one of the committee of three for organizing the F. B. Woman’s Missionary Society in 1873, in which Society she has constantly held responsible offices, and was a delegate to the World’s Congress of Representative Women in connection with the Columbian Exposition in 1893. She is also a trustee of Storer College, West Virginia, and a member of the Woman’s Commission of Hillsdale College. Her two daughters are Misses Freida and Bessie Mosher. As a successful educator, a graceful writer, and an earnest worker in behalf of the religious denomination with which she has been associated from childhood, Mrs. Mosher has done splendid service, and is still in the maturity of her powers.