Elizabeth Rous Comstock papers 1740-1929 1860-1880 Comstock, Elizabeth Rous papers

New Garden Boarding School

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O’Harrow, Marian, b. 1877

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Rogers, Mary

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Epithet: daughter of T Rogers British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001391.0x0000e1 Epithet: singer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000975.0x000317 ...

Rous, Lydia.

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O’Harrow, Caroline Wright DeGreene (Carrie), b. 1849

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Howland, Emily, 1827-1929

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Emily Howland was a Quaker reformer, educator and philanthropist. In the mid 1850s, she was a teacher in a school for African American girls. During the Civil War she helped organize the Freedman's Village at Camp Todd for refugee slaves, where she worked as nurse and teacher. After the war, she opened a school for African Americans. She took an interest in Southern normal and industrial school and left money for them in her will. The president of her county Woman's Suffrage Associati...

Hare, Caroline Rous.

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Snodgrass, John W.

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Rous, Lucianna.

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Grinnell, Rebecca.

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DeGreene, Caroline Elizabeth (Calla Lily), b. 1872

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Society of Friends

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The Society of Friends (or 'Quakers') was formed by George Fox (1624-1691), a shoemaker from Nottingham. In the 1640s Fox travelled throughout England delivering sermons in which he argued that individuals could have direct access to God without the need for churches, priests or other aspects of the established Church. Fox's followers became known as the 'Friends of Truth' and later the 'Society of Friends'. Fox developed rules for the management of meetings, which were printed as 'Friends Fello...

Rous, Allie.

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Lawrence University

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Tobey, Sarah.

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Wright, Leslie, d. 1849

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Bailey, Joshua Longstreth.

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Tobey, Samuel Boyd, 1805-1867

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DeGreene, Albert (Bertie), b. 1870

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Comstock family

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Elizabeth Leslie Rous Wright Comstock (1815-1891) was born in Maidenhead, England, to a large Quaker family. After several years working as a teacher, she married Leslie Wright in 1847; two years later they had a daughter, Caroline. Wright died in 1854, and, with her daughter and her sister, she emigrated from England to the Quaker community of Belleville, Ontario, where she began her public ministry with the Society of Friends. She married John T. Comstock (1807-1884) in 1858 and m...

Kirkbride, Thomas Story, 1809-1883

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Earlham College

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Comstock, Elizabeth Rous Wright, 1815-1891.

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O’Harrow, Orin.

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O’Harrow, Francis (Frank), b. 1878

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Hare, Samuel

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Rous, Rebecca Bell.

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Rous, Frederick Henry.

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Comstock, John T., 1807-1884

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DeGreene, Albert Gifford.

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