Schofield Normal and Industrial School (Aiken, S.C.)
Organization
Found in 2 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
Martha Schofield Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-134
Overview
Martha Schofield (1839-1916) was a Hicksite Quaker teacher from Pennsylvania who founded the Schofield Normal and Industrial School in Aiken, S. C., in 1868 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. Martha Fell Schofield was born Feb. 1, 1839, near Newtown, Bucks County, PA. She was the daughter of Oliver W....
Dates:
1853-1944 (bulk 1856-1916)
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- Subject: African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Aiken X
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- Lay ministry -- Society of Friends 1
- Missionaries -- South Carolina -- History -- 19th century 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- Europe -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quaker businesspeople 1
- Quaker women -- Diaries 1
- Quakers -- Diaries 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 1
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- Saint Helena Island (S.C.) -- History -- 19th century 1
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- Society of Friends -- Education 1
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