Papers of the Holt-Messer family. 1809-1962

United States Sanitary Commission

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The United States Sanitary Commission (USSC) was a private relief agency created by federal legislation on June 18, 1861, to support sick and wounded soldiers of the United States Army (Federal / Northern / Union Army) during the American Civil War. It operated across the North, raised an estimated $25 million in Civil War era revenue (assuming 1865 dollars, $422.66 million in 2021) and in-kind contributions to support the cause, and enlisted thousands of volunteers. The president was Henry Whit...

United States. Congress. House

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U.S. House of Representatives is the lower house of Congress. From the guide to the Subscription lists, 1870, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) The first session of the Congress of the United States, under a resolution passed by the Congress of the Confederation, on September 13, 1788, was called to meet in New York City on March 4, 1789. On the appointed day only 13 Members of the House were present and, as this number did not constitute a quorum, the sessions...

Babbitt family

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John Ayer.

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Hall, Lydia

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Mary Clark

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Frances Clark

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Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

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Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1818. He barely knew his mother, who lived on a different plantation and died when he was a young child and never discovered the identity of his father. When he turned eight years old, his slaveowner hired him out to work as a body servant in Baltimore. At an early age, Frederick realized there was a connection between literacy and freedom. Not allowed to attend school, he taught himself to read and wr...

Rollins, Louis

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Burt [family]

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Kate Norcross

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Holt, Augustus Fifield

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Jenny Heath

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Baker [family]

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Swisshelm, Jane Grey Cannon, 1815-1884

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Swisshelm was a journalist, reformer, and women's rights advocate. For biographical information, see Notable American Women, 1607-1950 (1971). From the description of Letter, 1878. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007366 Jane Grey Swisshelm was born in Pittsburgh in 1815. She worked as a teacher until her marriage to James Swisshelm. They built a home outside of Wilkinsburg and called it Swissvale. She had a talent for writing and worked for abolition and woomen'...

Atlanta University

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Atlanta University, now part of Clark Atlanta University, was founded in 1865 by the American Missionary Association with assistance also from the Freedmen's Bureau. Atlanta University developed graduate programs in different fields including liberal arts, social and natural sciences, and professional programs such as business, library science and business administration. In 1929, Atlanta University joined forces with Morehouse College and Spelman College to create Atlanta University Center. Lat...

North, John W. (John Webster), 1839-

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United States Contraband Camp.

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Freedmen's Bureau

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Dr. I. L. Mahan

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HOLT-MESSER FAMILY

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The papers of the Holt-Messer family center around Joseph Burt Holt (1828-1899), his wife Julia Rollins Holt (1829-1895), and their daughter Emily Burt Holt (1854-1934). The collection consists largely of letters to the Holts from JBH's sisters and their husbands: Mary Burt Holt Messer and B. Edmund Messer, Elizabeth Holt Babbitt and William Dean Babbitt, and Gratia Holt Berry and Willis Berry. The letters contain numerous references to the Babbitt children (George Augustus, Gratia ...

Emma North

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Messer family

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