Martin family papers and Campus Martius Museum records relating to Lilly Martin Spencer

Parsons, Anna Q.T. (Quincy Thaxter) -1906

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Anna was the daughter of Anna Quincy Thaxter (1791-1879) and Nehemiah Parsons (1773-1848), a former mariner and merchant on Boston's Long Wharf. Anna was a clairvoyant, whose specialty was reading a person's character, often just from a letter. She was also a women's rights activist who regularly visited Brook Farm, the utopian commune in Roxbury, where some artists and many of Boston's intellectuals lived in the 1840s. Anna and her mother and several sisters were early hikers in the White Mount...

Campus Martius Museum.

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Gage, Frances Dana, 1808-1884

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Author and reformer, Frances Dana Barker Gage was born on October 12, 1808, the daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Dana Barker. For biographical information, see Notable American Women, 1607-1950 (1971). From the description of Letter, n.y. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007079 ...

Martin, Angelique, b. 1792.

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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...

Bagley, Sarah G.

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Swift, Adeline T.

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Martin, Giles.

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Trumbull Phalanx (Braceville, Ohio)

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Spencer, Lilly Martin, 1822-1902

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Lilly Martin Spencer (1824-1902) grew up in Marietta, Ohio. She was a child prodigy in art, and in 1841 she moved to Cincinnati to formally study art. She married Benjamin Spencer Rush, a cloth merchant and tailor, in 1844. In 1848 they moved to New York. Spencer was determined to make a career as a painter, and over time she achieved popular and financial success. Many of her works were reproduced and distributed as inexpensive lithographs and engravings. From the description of Pai...

Columbus Historical Society (Columbus, Ohio)

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The original Ohio Statehouse was erected between 1800 and 1803 in Chillicothe, Ohio. It was the first stone public building in Ohio and was constructed in the Georgian Colonial style. Its inspiration was most likely the Governor’s Palace in Williamsburg, Virginia. The first legislature met in this building in 1803 and continued until 1810, when Zanesville became the capital city. In 1812, the capital was again moved to Chillicothe, where it remained until 1816. The Statehouse in Zanesv...

Eastman, Maria M.

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Emerson, Mary Moody.

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HEBERT, WILLIAM

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