Emily Howland papers, 1797-1938.

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Emily Howland papers, 1797-1938.

https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM02681.html

Collection consists primarily of correspondence; letters discuss attempts to establish schools for escaped slaves and freedmen in the South, abolition, Oberlin College President Charles Grandison Finney's opinion of John Brown and other abolitionists, the women's suffrage movement (especially in New York State), women's higher education, temperance, the Universal Peace movement, the National Arbitration League of Washington, aspects of Quaker life, the Society of Friends, the Freedmen's Bureau, and other issues. Correspondents include Isabel Howland, Caroline F. Putnam, Elizabeth Smith Miller, Sallie Holley, Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Cornelia Hancock, Amanda Sanford Hickey, Rev. John D. Read, Emma V. Brown, Booker T. Washington, Herbert Howland (while traveling in England, France, and Egypt), Hanna Letchworth Howland, Joseph and Richard Tallcott, Samuel Parsons, Ebenezer Burnham, George Lincoln Burr (to Isabel Howland), Lillie Devereux Blake, Mary E. Bowman, Gulielma Breed, Phoebe Hathaway, Henry Ince, J. R. Johnson, Alfred H. Love, E. Nash, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, L. W. Stebbins, and Julia A. Wilbur. Also, papers of the related Tallcott and Howland families, and printed items containing letters and other information concerning the Rev. John D. Read and family.

6.8 cubic ft., 15 reels positive, 15 reels negative microfilm.

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Blake, Lillie Devereux, 1833-1913

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Lillie Devereux Blake (pen name, Tiger Lily; August 12, 1833 – December 30, 1913) was an American woman suffragist, reformer, and writer, born in Raleigh, North Carolina, and educated in New Haven, Connecticut. In her early years, Blake wrote several novels and for the press. In 1869, she became actively interested in the woman suffrage movement and devoted herself to pushing the reform, arranging conventions, getting up public meetings, writing articles and occasionally making lecture tours....

Nash, Eddie

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Burr, George Lincoln, 1857-1938

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Historian and librarian. From the description of Letter, 1910 Nov. 11, Ithaca, N.Y., to Jos. A. Labadie, Detroit, Michigan. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34368242 Professor of medieval history, librarian of the Andrew Dickson White Library at Cornell University. From the description of George Lincoln Burr papers, 1861-1942. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64075187 From the guide to the George Lincoln Burr papers, 1861-19...

Tallcott family.

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Miller, Elizabeth Smith, 1822-1911

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Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa Brown, 1825-1921

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Antoinette Louisa Brown, later Antoinette Brown Blackwell (May 20, 1825 – November 5, 1921), was the first woman to be ordained as a mainstream Protestant minister in the United States. She was a well-versed public speaker on the paramount issues of her time and distinguished herself from her contemporaries with her use of religious faith in her efforts to expand women's rights. Brown was born the youngest of seven in Henrietta, New York, to Joseph Brown and Abby Morse. Brown was recognized as...

Howland, Isabella (American sculptor, active 20th century)

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Howland, Emily, 1827-1929

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Emily Howland was a Quaker reformer, educator and philanthropist. In the mid 1850s, she was a teacher in a school for African American girls. During the Civil War she helped organize the Freedman's Village at Camp Todd for refugee slaves, where she worked as nurse and teacher. After the war, she opened a school for African Americans. She took an interest in Southern normal and industrial school and left money for them in her will. The president of her county Woman's Suffrage Associati...

Hickey, Amanda Sanford.

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Read, John D., Rev., ca. 1812-1864.

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Hathaway, Phoebe.

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United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands

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The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau, was a U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed freedmen (freed slaves) in 1865–1869, during the Reconstruction era of the United States. The Freedmen's Bureau Bill, which created the Freedmen's Bureau, was initiated by President Abraham Lincoln and was intended to last for one year after the end of the Civil War. It was passed on March 3, 1865, by Congress to aid former slaves ...

Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1804-1894

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Elizabeth Palmer Peabody was at the center of the Transcendentalist movement in New England. Although she wrote and published many works, she is best remembered for her support and friendship of Emerson, Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller and many others. She published the journal Dial, founded the famous West Street Book Shop and Publishing House, and introduced kindergarten to America. From the description of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody letters, 1846-1854. (Pennsylvania State University Libra...

National Arbitration League.

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Burnham, Ebenezer.

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Hancock, Cornelia, 1840-1927

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Wilbur, Julia, 1815-1895

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Julia Wilbur was raised a Quaker in Rochester, N.Y. where she attended the Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society and met Harriet Jacobs. She was sent to Alexandria, VA to assist contraband relief efforts in 1861 and joined the U.S. Patent Office in Washington, D.C. in 1869. From the description of Papers, 1843-1908. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 27385929 ...

Howland, Herbert.

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Holley, Sallie, 1818-1893

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Caroline F. Putnam was born in Massachusetts on July 29, 1826, and entered Oberlin College in 1848. There, she became involved in the abolitionist movement and met Sallie Holley (1818-1893), a fellow abolitionist who became Putnam's lifelong friend. After their graduation, the two women traveled around the northern United States to raise support for abolitionism, and both grew interested in the welfare of freed slaves during the early years of the Civil War. In 1868, Putnam opened the Holley Sch...

Bowman, Mary Ellen

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Brown, Emma Viola Moore

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Tallcott, Joseph.

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Johnson, J. Richard, 1915-

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Breed, Gulielma.

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Finney, Charles G., 1792-1875

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Charles Grandison Finney (1792-1875), revivalist, educator, and second President of Oberlin College (1851-65), abandoned the practice of law after a dramatic religious conversion and, following ordination in the Presbyterian Church, launched a decade of extraordinarily successful revivals in New York state (1824-33). He left the Presbyterian Church in 1836 and identified himself as a Congregationalist from then on. Finney's brand of theological perfectionism helped to make Oberlin College famous...

Love, Alfred H. (Alfred Harry), 1830-1913

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Universal Peace Union

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Howland, Hanna Letchworth.

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Stebbins, L. W.

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Howland family.

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Ince, Henry

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Tallcott, Richard.

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Society of Friends

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Putnam, Caroline F., 1826-1917

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Parsons, Samuel

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