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Griscom family correspondence
Collection — othertype: SC-050
Identifier: SFHL-SC-050
Abstract
This collection primarily includes correspondence between William Wade Griscom and his family while he was at Benjamin Hallowell's boarding school in Alexandria, Virginia. Correspondents include his father, William, his stepmother, Sarah Whitelock, and his sister, Hannah S. Included are grade reports from Friends Central School and from Alexandria Boarding School, descriptions by William Wade Griscom of his trips to Washington, D.C., and an account of a lecture by Horace Mann. Also included...
Dates:
1844-1896
Howland-Kirby Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-067
Overview
Howland and Kirby families were Quakers of Dartmouth, Fairhaven, and New Bedford, Mass. The collection contains primarily transcripts and photocopies of their papers. Of particular interest are dairies of Weston Howland, Jr., with notes on the arrival of whaling ships in New Bedford and details of a controversy over the New Bedford-Fairhaven bridge; those of Abby S., and Rachel, which describe a trip taken by Abby to New York, N.Y., and Washington, D.C. (1888) and women preaching at Friends...
Dates:
circa 1790-circa 1973
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- Alexandria Boarding School (Alexandria, Va.) 1
- Cooper family 1
- Cooper, Lucy M. (Lucy Middleton), 1813-1872 1
- Friends' Central School 1
- Garrett, Alice H. Howland, b. 1867 1
- Griscom family 1
- Griscom, Hannah S. (Hannah Stuart), 1829-1901 1
- Griscom, Sarah M., 1839-1895 1
- Griscom, Sarah Whitelock, 1809-1890 1
- Griscom, William Wade, 1831-1895 1
- Griscom, William, 1804?-1885 1
- Hallowell, Benjamin, 1799-1877 1
- Howland family 1
- Howland, Abigail Hathaway, 1774-1867 1
- Howland, Rachel, 1853-1934 1
- Howland, Rebecca Kirby, 1825-1895 1
- Howland, Weston, 1815-ca. 1901 1
- Howland, Weston, 1852-1878 1
- Kirby family 1
- Kirby, Abigail H. Smith, 1798-1861 1
- Kirby, George, 1794-1882 1
- Mann, Horace K. (Horace Kinder), 1859-1928 1
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