Papers, 1863-1911.

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Papers, 1863-1911.

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The collection includes miscellaneous papers of a business and legal nature dating primarily from the early 1900s; correspondence (1896- 1910); and a ms. grade notebook (1863-1874). There are also two copies of a privately published account (1911), written by Johnston, of two women's experiences during the Civil War, as well as financial records and several letters regarding the Oberlin Village Improvement Society.

Oberlin College Library

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Oberlin College Library

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Oberlin College

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Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio. Founded in 1833, it is the oldest coeducational liberal arts college in the United States and the second-oldest continuously operating coeducational institute of higher learning in the world. The Oberlin Conservatory of Music is the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States. In 1835, Oberlin became one of the first colleges in the United States to admit African Americans, and in 18...

Oberlin Village Improvement Society (Oberlin, Ohio)

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Johnston, Adelia Antoinette Field, 1837-1910

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Adelia Antoinette Field Johnston was born in Lafayett, Ohio on February 5, 1837. At age 13, in 1851, she entered the Preparatory Department of Oberlin College. She graduated from the Literary Course in 1856, and during the two years following was principal of a seminary at Mossy Grove, Tennessee. She married Oberlin classmate James M. Johnston, in 1858; he died in 1862. Mrs. Johnston taught a year at Albany, Ohio; was principal of the Kinsman academy from 1862 to 1865; and of the Scituate, Rhode...