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Emily Howland Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-066
Overview
Emily Howland (1827-1929) was a Quaker humanitarian and educator who is particularly known for her work with formerly-enslaved African Americans in Virginia during and after the American Civil War. A birthright Friend, Emily Howland was the only daughter of Slocum and Hannah (Tallcot) Howland of Sherwood, N.Y. She was educated locally and for a brief period in Philadelphia, and then moved to Washington, D.C. in 1857 to teach at the Miner School for Freedmen. During the war she worked at a...
Dates:
1763-1929
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 blacks 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, correspondence and...
Dates:
1870-1957
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- Alsop, John , b.1813 1
- Howland family 1
- Howland, Benjamin, 1837-1882 1
- Howland, Emily, 1827-1929 1
- Howland, Hannah T. (Hannah Tallcot), 1796-1867 1
- Howland, Slocum, 1794-1881 1
- Howland, William, 1823-1905 1
- Putnam, Caroline F., 1826-1917 1
- Schofield Normal and Industrial School (Aiken, S.C.) 1
- Schofield, Martha 1
- Scipio Executive Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1886-1924 : Scipio, N.Y.) 1
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- Sherwood Select School 1
- Strange, Edward, d. 1872 1
- Talcott family 1
- Tallcot, Joseph, 1768-1853 1
- Tallcot, Phebe F., 1799-1870 1
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