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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
Emily Howland papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1164
Overview
The collection consists of correspondence between the administrator of Emily Howland's estate, Richard C.S. Drummond, and representatives of 39 mostly southern African American educational institutions, as beneficiaries of her will.
Dates:
1926-1975
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- Alsop, John , b.1813 1
- Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955 1
- Drummond, Richard C. S. 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, Isabel 1
- Howland, Slocum, 1794-1881 1
- Howland, William, 1823-1905 1
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 1
- Putnam, Caroline F., 1826-1917 1
- Scattergood, J. Henry (Joseph Henry), 1877-1953 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
- Sherwood Select School 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
- Towne, Laura M. (Laura Matilda) 1
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