Holt-Messer family papers, 1809-1962 (inclusive).

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...

Messer family.

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Baker family.

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Babbitt family.

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Messer, Emma North, 1852-1938.

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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'...

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...

United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands

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The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau, was a U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed freedmen (freed slaves) in 1865–1869, during the Reconstruction era of the United States. The Freedmen's Bureau Bill, which created the Freedmen's Bureau, was initiated by President Abraham Lincoln and was intended to last for one year after the end of the Civil War. It was passed on March 3, 1865, by Congress to aid former slaves ...

Burt family.

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United States Contraband Camp.

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Holt, Julia Evelyn Rollins, 1829-1895.

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Berry family.

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Holt, Emily Burt, 1854-1934.

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Holt family.

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Family papers of Joseph Burt Holt (1828-1899) and Julia Evelyn Rollins Holt (1829-1895), who founded the town of Champlin, MN; assisted freedmen in Jackson, MS, 1868-1869; taught school in Atlanta, GA in 1875; and worked on Indian reservations in Lac Court d'Oreilles, WI, Los Pinos, CO, and Tierra Amarilla, NM, during the 1870s and early 1880s. From the description of Holt-Messer family papers, 1809-1962 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122557319 ...

Holt, Joseph, Burt, 1828-1899.

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