E. Miriam Coyrière
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E. Miriam Coyrière | |
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| Born | E. Miriam Coyriere London, England |
| Alma mater | Cooper Institute |
| Occupations | Teacher, businesswoman |
| Known for | E. Miriam Coyriere Teachers' Agency |
| Spouse | Carlos Pardo (m. 1884) |
| Children | 1 |
E. Miriam Coyrière was a businesswoman, the founder in 1880 of the E. Miriam Coyriere Teachers' Agency in Manhattan.
E. Miriam Coyrière was born in London, England, when her parents were traveling and visiting relatives there. She was of English ancestry, the Hopkins family on her father's side, who settled in New England and were prominent in the history of the Colonies, and on her mother's side the Archer family, at one time the owners of Fordham Manor, in Westchester County, New York. Lord John Archer received the letters patent on the estate in November 1671. The manor was mortgaged in 1686 to Cornelius Van Steenwyk, a New York merchant, and he left it by will to the Dutch Church of New York. On her mother's side, the families had been Episcopalians since the establishment of the Episcopal Church in England; on her father's side, they belonged to the same church for over one hundred years.[1]
Coyrière inherited literary talent from her mother, who was both a poet and artist. Her father, who was wealthy at the time of his marriage, was a talented and highly educated man, and he turned his attainments to account when his fortune was swept away. He was a fine linguist and an author. Coyriere belonged to a family of six children.[1]
