Schofield, Martha
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1839 - 1916
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Ash-Schofield Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-004
Overview
Samuel Shinn Ash and his wife, Sarah Jane Schofield Ash, were prominent Quakers, active in a variety of philanthropic activities, including anti-slavery, peace, temperance, women's rights, and education. Samuel Shinn Ash was apprenticed as an engineer and machinist and worked in manufacturing. This collection consists of family papers, manuscript letters and memorabilia, largely of a domestic nature. Includes some descriptions of Meetings and religious journeys, of the early struggles of...
Dates:
1796 - 1933; Majority of material found within 1833 - 1912
Benjamin Coates African Colonization collection
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1190
Overview
Letters relating to the emigration of free Blacks to the West African colony of Liberia and establishment of Liberian institutions written to American Quaker reformer, Benjamin Coates (1808-1887) whose work toward the abolition of slavery led to a relationship with many well-known people connected to Liberia, a colony established to offer a new home and a fresh start away from slavery to free Blacks in the mid-19th century.
Dates:
1848-1880; Majority of material found within 1858 - 1869
Howard Malcolm Jenkins Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-074
Overview
Howard Malcolm Jenkins (1842-1902), a birthright Quaker, was a scholar of Pennsylvania history and genealogy and published many books and articles based on his research. He was an active member of the Society of Friends, editor of the Friends Intelligencer, and served on the Board of Managers of Swarthmore College. The collection contains family papers and genealogical material on the Jenkins and Foulke families, correspondence of Howard M. Jenkins, and his publications and writings....
Dates:
1724-1904
Mott Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-035
Overview
Lucretia Mott was a prominent Philadelphia Quaker minister and a leader in reform movements, especially antislavery, education, peace, and women's rights. She was born in 1793 in Nantucket, Mass., the daughter of Thomas and Anna Coffin, and educated at Nine Partners Boarding School in Dutchess Co., N.Y. In 1811, she married James Mott and they settled in Philadelphia, Pa. The Motts were active Hicksite Quakers, and Lucretia served as clerk of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and traveled in the...
Dates:
1831-1898
Martha Schofield Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-134
Overview
Martha Schofield (1839-1916) was a Hicksite Quaker teacher from Pennsylvania who founded the Schofield Normal and Industrial School in Aiken, S. C., in 1868 to provide education for formerly enslaved people. The School gradually evolved into a boarding school for training young blacks in industrial trades or to become teachers. It was absorbed into the public school system in 1952. Martha Fell Schofield was born Feb. 1, 1839, near Newtown, Bucks County, PA. She was the daughter of Oliver W....
Dates:
1853-1944 (bulk 1856-1916)
Martha Schofield photograph collection
Collection — Othertype PA-143
Identifier: SFHL-PA-143
Overview
Martha Schofield (1839-1916) was a Hicksite Quaker teacher from Pennsylvania who founded the Schofield Normal and Industrial School in Aiken, S. C., in 1868 to provide education for formerly enslaved people. This collection contains a number of portraits of Martha Schofield, as well as some family pictures and photographs of the Schofield school.
Dates:
1847 - 1984
Schofield Normal and Industrial School (Aiken, S.C.) Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-060
Overview
The Schofield Normal and Industrial School was founded in 1868 by Martha Schofield (1839-1916), a Pennsylvania Quaker. Her intention initially was to provide education for formerly enslaved people. The School gradually evolved into a boarding school for training young Black people in industrial trades or to become teachers. It was absorbed into the public school system in 1952. The collection contains minutes of the board of trustees (1886-1942), legal documents, financial records,...
Dates:
1870-1957
Additional filters:
- Subject
- African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Aiken 3
- Education -- South Carolina -- Aiken 3
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 3
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 3
- African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History -- 19th century 2
- Aiken (S.C.) -- Social conditions -- History -- 19th century 2
- Antislavery movements -- United States 2
- Freed persons -- Education -- South Carolina 2
- Lay ministry -- Society of Friends 2
- Schools -- South Carolina -- Aiken 2
- Society of Friends -- Education 2
- Abolitionists 1
- Abolitionists -- United States 1
- Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century 1
- African American social reformers 1
- African Americans -- Education 1
- African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina 1
- African Americans -- Vocational education -- South Carolina 1
- Anti-fascist movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Boarding schools -- South Carolina 1
- Education -- South Carolina 1
- Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States 1
- Feminism -- United States 1
- Feminism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Feminists -- United States -- Correspondence 1
- Freed persons -- Education -- Southern States 1
- Johns Island (S.C.) -- History -- 19th century 1
- Liberia -- History 1
- Missionaries -- South Carolina -- History -- 19th century 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- Europe -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Publishers and publishing 1
- Quaker abolitionists 1
- Quaker authors 1
- Quaker businesspeople 1
- Quaker philanthropists 1
- Quaker social reformers 1
- Quaker women 1
- Quaker women -- Diaries 1
- Quaker women -- Education 1
- Quakers -- Diaries 1
- Quakers -- South Carolina 1
- Quakers -- South Carolina -- History -- 19th century 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- South Carolina 1
- Saint Helena Island (S.C.) -- History -- 19th century 1
- Sea Islands -- Social conditions -- 19th century 1
- Slavery and the church -- Society of Friends 1
- Social reformers -- United States 1
- Society of Friends -- Charities 1
- South Carolina -- Social conditions -- 19th century 1
- Spirituality -- Society of Friends 1
- Student Activities -- Pennsylvania -- Swarthmore 1
- Teachers colleges -- South Carolina 1
- Trade schools -- South Carolina 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Public Opinion 1
- Universities and colleges -- Pennsylvania -- Swarthmore 1
- Vocational education -- South Carolina 1
- Wadmalaw Island (S.C.) -- History -- 19th century 1
- War resistance movements -- History -- Sources 1
- Women -- South Carolina -- Diaries 1
- Women abolitionists -- United States -- Correspondence 1
- Women missionaries -- South Carolina -- History -- 19th century 1
- Women social workers -- South Carolina 1
- Women's rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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