Author and abolitionist, Mary Isabella (Batchelder) James of Philadelphia worked for the Sanitary Commission and visited military hospitals during the Civil War. After the war she served as president of the Pennsylvania branch of the Freedman Commission of the Protestant Episcopal Church, which sent teachers to the South to open schools for freedmen. She was married to Thomas Potts James. They had four children: Mary Isabella, Montgomery, Francesca, and Clarence Gray. Their daughter, Mary Isabella (1852-1935), was an historian and genealogist who married Count Silvio Mario Alfredo de Gozzaldi, military attache of the Austrian legation at Rome.
From the description of Papers, 1833-1909 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008492
