Papers of the Briggs family, 1820-1915 (inclusive), 1838-1900 (bulk)

Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893

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Lucy Stone (b. Aug. 13, 1818, West Brookfield, MA–d. Oct. 18, 1893, Boston, MA) was born to parents Hannah Matthews and Francis Stone. At age 16, Stone began teaching in district schools always earning far less money than men. In 1847, she became the first woman in Massachusetts to earn a college degree from Oberlin College. After college, Stone began her career with the Garrisonian Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society and began giving public speeches on women's rights. In the fall of 1847, with...

Severance, Caroline M. Seymour (Caroline Maria Seymour), 1820-1914

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Caroline Maria Seymour Severance, suffragist, reformer, and social activist, was born in Canadaigua, New York, in January 1820. In 1840 she married Theodoric Severance. The Severances first lived in Cleveland, Ohio, but moved to Boston in 1855. In 1868, Caroline Severance founded the New England Women's Club, the first women's club in the United States earning her the name "Mother of Clubs." The Severances moved to Los Angeles in 1875 where she continued her various reform work including Unitari...

Bradford Academy

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Anne (Briggs) Blood

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Lincoln, Calvin

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Wight, Daniel, 1808-1895

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Mary (Briggs) Wight

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Clara (Briggs) Robinson

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Stoddard family

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BRIGGS FAMILY

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The Briggs Family Papers center on the personal and professional correspondence of Caroline Atherton (Briggs) Mason, a lesser-known Victorian poet, and her sister Harriette (Briggs) Stoddard, a missionary to Persia. CABM and HBS were the youngest of seven daughters of Dr. Calvin Briggs and Rebecca (Monroe) Briggs of Marblehead, Massachusetts. All seven sisters (see p. 4) attended Bradford Academy near Haverhill, Massachusetts, where they were known as "the Pleiades." Sev...

Horton, Edward Augustus, 1843-1931

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Mason family

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Charles Mason

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Ames, Charles Gordon, 1828-1912

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Letter stating that "our 'Broad Guage' society is again obliged to seek a minister" and recommending the Rev. Thomas Jay Hoover of Boston for a "month's hearing in Bloomington [Indiana]." From the description of ALS, 1895 May 17, 12 Chestnut St., Boston, to "Dear Ancient Playmate, Friend and Brother." (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63935982 Unitarian minister. Ordained a Free Baptist minister in 1849. Joined Unitarians in 1858. Minister in Bloomington, Ill...

Fidelia Fiske

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Elizabeth (Briggs) Wooldredge

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Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950

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Daughter of suffrage leaders Lucy Stone and Henry Browne Blackwell, Alice Stone Blackwell joined her parents in writing and editing the Woman's Journal. For additional biographical information, see Notable American Women, 1607-1950 (1971). From the description of Papers in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1885-1950 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008749 Editor, The woman's journal and suffrage news. From the description of Letter, 1920 Apr...

Hamilton, Rose

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