Florence Hemenway Wells Papers 1920-1965

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Florence Hemenway Wells Papers 1920-1965

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Local agent for the Thomas Thompson Trust (Brattleboro, VT). Diaries, reports, notes, clippings, financial records, legal documents, correspondence, church programs, publications, and memorabilia documentating church activities and charities in the Brattleboro, Vermont area. NOTE: There is no container list for this finding aid. You may contact the Sophia Smith Collection for more information.

1 box; (1 linear ft.)

eng,

Sophia Smith Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 6323040

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Wells, Florence H. (Florence Hemenway), 1878-1967

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Florence Wells was born in 1878 and served as the local agent for the Thomas Thompson Trust in Brattleboro, Vermont from 1921 to the early 1960s. The Trust was founded in 1907 to provide assistance for poor and working class women. TTT sought to prevent illness among working women and their families through public health programs, and dispensed small amounts of money to the women in the form of loans. Wells was also very active in the Congregational Church in Brattleboro. She died in 1967. ...