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Cornelia Hancock Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-308
Overview
Cornelia Hancock (1840-1927) was a Civil War nurse, Reconstruction-era teacher in South Carolina, and, later, Philadelphia social worker. The papers consist primarily of her letters written in the post-Civil War years, 1865-1879, when she was teaching the children of formerly enslaved people in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. The collection includes reference material used by the donor, Henrietta Stratton Jaquette, in preparation for her book South after Gettysburg which was based on Hancock's...
Dates:
1861 - 1937; Majority of material found within 1865-1880
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
Helen S. Judson Collected Sherwood Select School Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-228
Overview
Sherwood Select School was a Quaker high school in Sherwood, New York, established in 1871. In 1926, it became part of a consolidated public school system, renamed Sherwood Central School. Helen S. Judson (1885-1973) served as a teacher and then principal between 1909 and 1919. Emily Howland (1827-1929), Quaker educator and humanitarian, was a long time supporter of the School until her death in 1929. This collection contains the papers of Helen S. Judson, including correspondence while at the...
Dates:
1909-1973
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- Alsop, John , b.1813 1
- Friends' Association of Philadelphia for the Aid and Elevation of the Freedmen 1
- Hancock, Cornelia, 1840-1927 1
- Howland family 1
- Howland, Benjamin, 1837-1882 1
- Howland, Hannah T. (Hannah Tallcot), 1796-1867 1
- Howland, Slocum, 1794-1881 1
- Howland, William, 1823-1905 1
- Judson, Helen S. (Helen Sheldon), 1885-1973 1
- Putnam, Caroline F., 1826-1917 1
- Scipio Executive Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1886-1924 : Scipio, N.Y.) 1
- Scipio Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1886 : Scipio, N.Y.) 1
- Strange, Edward, d. 1872 1
- Talcott family 1
- Tallcot, Joseph, 1768-1853 1
- Tallcot, Phebe F., 1799-1870 1
- Tallcot, Richard, b.1791 1
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