The daughter of Joseph W. and Rebecca (Richardson) Collingwood and sister of Mary Jane, George W., Herbert W., and Charles B.
Her father Joseph was commissioned as a Captain and in command of Company H of the 18th Massachusetts Infantry when he was wounded at the battle of Fredericksburg on December 13, 1862. He died of his wounds on December 24, 1862 and was interred at Burial Hill, Plymouth, as was her mother in 1886.
Eleanor accompanied Benjamin Apthrop Gould and his family during his work at the national observatory in Cordoba, Argentina in 1870-1874. In 1878 she was a teacher at Hampton Institute and later taught in the Boston public school system for nearly fifty years. She co-owned a three decker, multifamily home with her sister Mary Jane located on Dunlap Street, Dorchester which was built in 1905 and still stands.
Her father Joseph was commissioned as a Captain and in command of Company H of the 18th Massachusetts Infantry when he was wounded at the battle of Fredericksburg on December 13, 1862. He died of his wounds on December 24, 1862 and was interred at Burial Hill, Plymouth, as was her mother in 1886.
Eleanor accompanied Benjamin Apthrop Gould and his family during his work at the national observatory in Cordoba, Argentina in 1870-1874. In 1878 she was a teacher at Hampton Institute and later taught in the Boston public school system for nearly fifty years. She co-owned a three decker, multifamily home with her sister Mary Jane located on Dunlap Street, Dorchester which was built in 1905 and still stands.
The daughter of Joseph W. and Rebecca (Richardson) Collingwood and sister of Mary Jane, George W., Herbert W., and Charles B.
Her father Joseph was commissioned as a Captain and in command of Company H of the 18th Massachusetts Infantry when he was wounded at the battle of Fredericksburg on December 13, 1862. He died of his wounds on December 24, 1862 and was interred at Burial Hill, Plymouth, as was her mother in 1886.
Eleanor accompanied Benjamin Apthrop Gould and his family during his work at the national observatory in Cordoba, Argentina in 1870-1874. In 1878 she was a teacher at Hampton Institute and later taught in the Boston public school system for nearly fifty years. She co-owned a three decker, multifamily home with her sister Mary Jane located on Dunlap Street, Dorchester which was built in 1905 and still stands.
Her father Joseph was commissioned as a Captain and in command of Company H of the 18th Massachusetts Infantry when he was wounded at the battle of Fredericksburg on December 13, 1862. He died of his wounds on December 24, 1862 and was interred at Burial Hill, Plymouth, as was her mother in 1886.
Eleanor accompanied Benjamin Apthrop Gould and his family during his work at the national observatory in Cordoba, Argentina in 1870-1874. In 1878 she was a teacher at Hampton Institute and later taught in the Boston public school system for nearly fifty years. She co-owned a three decker, multifamily home with her sister Mary Jane located on Dunlap Street, Dorchester which was built in 1905 and still stands.
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