Camilla Cobb

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Camilla Cobb (1843-1933) was the founder of the first kindergarten in Utah.

She was born Camilla Clara Meith in Dresden. Her older sister, Anna, was married to Karl G. Maeser. Cobb joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1856 and emmigrated to the United States with the Maesers.

Camilla married James T. Cobb in 1864. In 1874 she was trained as a kindergarten teacher in New Jersey and then returned to Utah where she founded a kindergarten.

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Frantz, Catherine Britsch, "Camilla Cobb" in Garr, Arnold K., Donald Q. Cannon and Richard O. Cowan ed., Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History, (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2000) p. 223