Schofield, Martha
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1839 - 1916
Found in 3 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
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
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
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- Subject: Quaker women X
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- Education -- South Carolina -- Aiken 2
- Lay ministry -- Society of Friends 2
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 2
- Abolitionists -- United States 1
- African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina 1
- African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Aiken 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina 1
- African Americans -- Vocational education -- South Carolina 1
- Aiken (S.C.) -- Social conditions -- History -- 19th century 1
- Antislavery movements -- United States 1
- Boarding schools -- South Carolina 1
- Education -- South Carolina 1
- Feminism -- United States 1
- Feminism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Feminists -- United States -- Correspondence 1
- Freedmen -- Education -- South Carolina 1
- Quaker businesspeople 1
- Quaker women 1
- Quaker women -- Diaries 1
- Quaker women -- Education 1
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 1
- Quakers -- South Carolina 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- South Carolina 1
- Schools -- South Carolina -- Aiken 1
- Slavery and the church -- Society of Friends 1
- Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States 1
- Social reformers -- United States 1
- Society of Friends -- Charities 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
- Women abolitionists -- United States -- Correspondence 1
- Women social workers -- South Carolina 1
- Women's rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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