Ash-Schofield Family Papers, 1796-1939.

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Ash-Schofield Family Papers, 1796-1939.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28177076

This collection consists of family papers, correspondence, and memorabilia, largely of a domestic nature. Includes some description of Quaker meetings and religious journeys, of the activities of Samuel S. Ash in engineering and business, references to the Schofield Normal and Industrial School in Aiken, NC, of which Martha Schofield, a correspondent, was manager, and student life at Swarthmore College in the 1890's from the perspective of Mary S. Ash.

2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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SNAC Resource ID: 7255397

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Ash, Samuel S. (Samuel Shinn), 1829-1911

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Ash was a Quaker minister and husband of Sarah Jackson Schofield; they lived in Philadelphia and Swarthmore, Pa. From the description of Letter, 1900. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007513 ...

Schofield, Lydia A. (Lydia Ann), 1835-1909

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Schofield, Martha

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Martha Schofield was a northern Quaker teacher-missionary among the free blacks on Wadmalaw Island and Johns Island (Charleston County) and at Aiken, S.C. From the description of Martha Schofield papers, 1865-1869. WorldCat record id: 24250571 ...

Swarthmore college

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Founded by members of Baltimore, New York and Philadelphia Yearly Meetings of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Swarthmore College was incorporated in 1864 under a charter from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The College opened in 1869 as an college and preparatory school, although the preparatory division was phased out in the 1880s. The Charter was amended in 1908 to remove any formal links to the Society of Friends. The College continues to operate as a liberal arts college with a...

Ash, Sarah J. (Sarah Jane), 1835-1912

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Schofield, Oliver W. (Oliver Wilson), 1806-1852

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Schofield Normal and Industrial School (Aiken, S.C.)

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Originally a school for freedmen, founded in 1868 by Martha Schofield (1839-1916), a Pennsylvania Quaker; initially provided education for freed slaves; gradually evolved into boarding school for training young African Americans in industrial trades or to become teachers; absorbed into public school system of Aiken County, S.C., in 1952. From the description of Records, 1883 - 1945 [microform]. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 76823766 Founded in 1868 by M...

Jenkins, Mary Ash, 1875-1948

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Child, Mary H. (Mary Hough), 1803-1874

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