Records, 1865-1952.

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Records, 1865-1952.

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These records of the New York Colored Mission, founded in 1865 under the name African Sunday School Association, consist of accounts and donations, correspondence, minutes of the Board of Managers and Board of Trustees, and miscellaneous. Two of the Mission's prime movers were Levi Hollingsworth Wood, who served as secretary of the Board of Trustees from 1898-1956, and Joshua L. Barton, secretary and then president of the Board of Trustees until his death in 1926. A good deal of the correspondence is Barton's and Wood's. The Mission's ctivities were terminated in 1966.

5 boxes plus 7 individually shelved items, ca. 1000 items.

Haverford College Library

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Haverford College Library

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New York Colored Mission

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Barton, Joshua L., 1849-1926.

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Wood, L. Hollingsworth (Levi Hollingsworth), 1874-1956

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L. Hollingsworth Wood was a Quaker attorney, born at Mt. Kisco, N.Y., the son of James and Emily (Hollingsworth) Wood. His sister was Carolena Wood (1871-1936). Wood graduated from Haverford College (1896) and Columbia University Law School (1899). He worked actively in the areas of peace, civil rights, and African American and Quaker education. From the description of Prison Reform Papers, 1913-1937. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 56362168 L. Hollingsworth Wood, ...