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Choate, Joseph Hodges, 1832-1917.

 Person

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-174
Overview Abby Hopper Gibbons (1801-1893), daughter of Isaac T. Hopper (1771-1852), was an important figure in many of the reform movements of the mid- and late nineteenth centuries, especially abolition and her work with the Women's Prison Association and Isaac T. Hopper Home. In 1833, she married fellow Hicksite Quaker, James Sloan Gibbons (1810-1892), a member of the New York Yearly Meeting of Friends. Her daughter, Sarah Hopper Emerson, used some of this material as a basis for her 1897 biography...
Dates: 1824-1992 [bulk 1850-1892]

Willard E. Mead collection

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-826
Overview

Letters written by Western cultural and social leaders of the 19th century to Sir Francis Joseph Campbell, a notable educator of the blind.

Dates: circa 1852-1914

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Subject
Blind -- Education 1
Quakers -- New York (State) -- New York 1
Quakers -- Social life and customs 1
Quakers -- United States -- Civil War, 1861–1865 1