Industrial and Vocational Education, Universal and Self Sustaining by Lydia Jane Newcomb Comings

Industrial and Vocational Education, Universal and Self Sustaining by Lydia Jane Newcomb Comings

Lydia Jane Newcomb Comings

1850-1946

Lydia Jane Newcomb Comings was born in Spring Lake, Michigan. She graduated from Mrs. L. H. Stone's Seminary in Kalamazoo, Michigan, before embarking on a teaching career. Comings taught at the Ravenswood Public School in Chicago from 1876 to 1885 and later at the Moravian Seminary in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, from 1895 to 1898. After 1899, she transitioned into lecturing on various subjects including physical culture, dress, voice, and related topics. Comings was instrumental in founding the School of Organic Education in Fairhope, Alabama, where she served as president of its Board of Trustees. Additionally, she established and presided over the Baldwin County Historical Society. She passed away in 1946.

Alabama Authors of the 19th & 20th Centuries, edited by Beverley Park Rilett, http://alabamaauthors.org

1915

Industrial and Vocational Education, Universal and Self Sustaining. Boston, MA; Christopher Publishing Co, 1915.

AL Book Collection

Comings, Lydia Jane Newcomb, “Industrial and Vocational Education, Universal and Self Sustaining by Lydia Jane Newcomb Comings,” Alabama Authors of the 19th & 20th Centuries, accessed November 8, 2026, https://alabamaauthors.org/items/show/24805.