James A. Marshall diary 1853 Marshall, James A. diary

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James A. Marshall diary 1853 Marshall, James A. diary

Diary by a 20-year-old teacher from New York, containing observations made during an 1853 stay in Mississippi, including thoughts on slavery, African American churches, Southern culture, and the outbreak of a yellow fever epidemic from which he died. The volume also contains a eulogy in a different hand for Mary Lyon, founder of Mount Holyoke.

1 volume

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SNAC Resource ID: 6392472

William L. Clements Library

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Lyon, Mary, 1797-1849

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Mary Lyon, educator and founder of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College), was born on February 28, 1797, in Buckland, Massachusetts. Her parents were Aaron Lyon, a farmer, and Jemima Shepard Lyon. After her father's death in 1802 and her mother's remarriage 1810, Lyon remained on the family farm as a housekeeper for her brother. She started teaching in 1814 and continued her own education by attending Sanderson Academy in Ashfield, Massachusetts, Amherst (Massachusetts) Acade...

African Methodist Episcopal Church. Seventh Episcopal District

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Organized in 1816 from a congregation formed by a group of blacks who withdrew in 1787 from St. George's Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia because of discrimination; Richard Allen was consecrated the first bishop in 1816. From the description of African Methodist Episcopal Church collection, 1914-1971 (bulk 1950-1971). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70962830 ...

Butler, Zebulon, 1803-1860

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Marshall, James Ayrault, 1833-1853.

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James Ayrault Marshall was born in 1833 and baptized in Colebrook, Connecticut, on May 1, 1835. He was the son of Raphael and Mary Ann (Ayrault) Marshall. His mother died March 31, 1833, possibly in childbirth. Marshall taught school in Athens, New York, before embarking on a trip around Mississippi in 1853, during which he gave sporadic temperance lectures and considered taking work as a teacher of bookkeeping. During an epidemic of yellow fever, Marshall died of the disease on September 5, 185...

Mount Holyoke Female Seminary

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Mount Holyoke Female Seminary was chartered in 1836; it was reincorporated as Mount Holyoke Seminary and College in 1888 and as Mount Holyoke College in 1893. From the description of Catalogue, 1862. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007161 ...