The William Sanders and Sarah Cordelia Bierce Scarborough papers, 1797-1935, bulk 1884-1935.

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The William Sanders and Sarah Cordelia Bierce Scarborough papers, 1797-1935, bulk 1884-1935.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19933285

Consists of correspondence for the Abbey, Bierce and Scarborough families, genealogical materials, memorabilia, clippings, and articles written by Sarah Scarborough. This collection pertains primarily to the social life and conditions of a black family during the 19th and early 20th centuries. There is also a small amount of material pertaining to William Scarborough's attempts for governmental appointments in the 1890s and 1920s.

0.95 linear ft.

Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6986785

Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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Scarborough, W. S. (William Sanders), 1852-1926

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William Sanders Scarborough (1852-1926), African American author, educator, and lecturer, was born a slave on February 16, 1852, in Macon, Georgia. His mother Frances Gwynn Scarborough was a slave, although his father Jeremiah had been freed by his master in 1846. Despite state restrictions, W.S. Scarborough learned to read and write. In 1869 following emancipation, he entered Atlanta University and later attended Oberlin College in Ohio. In 1875 he graduated and returned to the South to teach, ...

Abbey family.

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Kistler family.

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Bierce, Phebe Cordelia Abbey.

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Bierce family.

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Scarborough family.

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Wilberforce University

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Wilberforce University has its beginnings in a 28 Sept. 1853 meeting, during which the Cincinnati Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church agreed to fund a coeducational college for African-American people of the state to be called Ohio African University and to be located in Tawas Springs, Ohio. Chartered as Wilberforce University in 1856, enrollment reached 207 people, and second year collegiate instruction was offered. Because of financial difficulties due to the Civil War (1861-1865), th...

Scarborough, Sarah Cordelia Bierce, b. 1851.

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