Mary Virginia Brown (Mrs. Elijah Lewis) Connally organization papers, 1892-1906 (bulk 1892-1899).

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Mary Virginia Brown (Mrs. Elijah Lewis) Connally organization papers, 1892-1906 (bulk 1892-1899).

These are papers from organizations of which Mary B. Connally was treasurer: the Industrial Educational Loan Association, Fulton Co., GA, and the Grady Hospital Aid Association. Correspondence from some of the girls, particularly Rosa B. Holmes, who received loans to attend the Georgia Normal and Industrial College in Milledgeville, is included.

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Holmes, Rosa

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Connally, Mary Virginia Brown, 1850-1927

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Mrs. Connally was the daughter of Elizabeth Grisham and Georgia Governor Joseph E. Brown and lived with her husband for many years at 53 Ashby Street in the then-fashionable West End of Atlanta. Grady Hospital doctors and personnel requested wealthy women like Mrs. Connally to start the Grady Hospital Aid Association, a voluntary, charitable organization. She also served on the board of the Industrial Educational Loan Association in Fulton County, founded to help poor white women attend college ...

Industrial Educational Loan Association (Fulton County, Ga.)

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Grady Hospital Aid Association (Atlanta, Ga.)

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