Poor (Family : Poor, Henry Varnum, 1812-1905)
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Poor (Family : Poor, Henry Varnum, 1812-1905)
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Poor
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Poor, Henry Varnum, 1812-1905
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Five generations of the Poor family, members of which were active in the clergy, business and social movements in New England, produced this collection, which centers on Henry Varnum Poor (1812-1905), a railroad journalist and economist, and on his wife Mary (Pierce) Poor (1820-1912), a participant in social reform movements and daughter of John Pierce (1773-1849) who for 50 years was minister of the First Church of Brookline, MA. Also represented are the Pierce family: John Pierce and his wife Lucy (Tappan) Pierce, daughter of Benjamin Tappan who was a progenitor of the abolitionist family; Lucy (Pierce) Hedge and her husband Frederic Henry Hedge (1805-1890), a transcendentalist minister; Henry Varnum Poor's children, including Henry William Poor (1844-1915), a New York banker; and Henry Varnum Poor's grandchildren.
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Religion
Congregationalism
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i. Congregationalism
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New Englanders
Prison reformers
Transcendentalism
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Abolitionists
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New England
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United States
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Brookline
MA, US
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New York City
NY, US
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