Papers of the Vail-Motter family, 1867-1969

College of the Sisters of Bethany (Topeka, Kan.)

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Vail, Ellen Ledlie Bowman, 1828-1894.

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VAIL FAMILY

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Thomas Hubbard Vail, 1812-1889, was the first Episcopal bishop of Kansas, and the first bishop to be consecrated west of the Mississippi River. In 1865 THV founded the Episcopal Seminary, the first institution for higher education of women west of the Mississippi, in Topeka, Kansas. Later renamed the College of the Sisters of Bethany, the school was absorbed into Washburn College in the 1930s. THV was one of seven bishops who in 1866 protested against the southern bishops' secession...

Whitehill, Walter Muir, 1905-1978

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Vail, Thomas H. (Thomas Hubbard), 1812-1889

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Vail was Episcopal bishop of the diocese of Kansas. From the guide to the Letters, 1872-1874, (University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Kansas Collection) Thomas Hubbard Vail was the first Episcopal Bishop of Kansas, and founded Topeka's first hospital, Christ Hospital, in 1882, as well as the College of the Sisters of Bethany in Topeka. Vail was born in Richmond, Virginia on October 21, 1812. His parents were from New England, and on the death of his father in ...

Vail, Samuel Bowman, 1868-1878.

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Motter, Thomas Hubbard Vail, 1901-1973

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Tharp, Louise Marshall Hall, 1898-

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Motter, Ellen Sitgreaves Vail, 1870-1952.

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Episcopal Female Seminary, Topeka, Kansas

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Washburn College, Topeka, Kansas

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