Shelton family papers, 1783-1934.

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Shelton family papers, 1783-1934.

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Collection consists largely of letters between members of the interrelated Tappan, Brewster, Tomlinson, and Shelton families, and emphasizes religious, missionary, and educational experiences. Included are a letter (1821) from a female teacher at the Brainard Cherokee Mission School; letters (1827) from Anne Tappan at Catharine Beecher's School in Hartford, Connecticut; letters (1834) from Lucy Tappan, a teacher at a religious academy in Detroit, concerning local conditions, Miss Beecher, and nativist fears; letters (1840) from Joseph Tomlinson, Jr., New Haven, Connecticut, describing commencement antics and a visit to a lock factory; a series (1851-52) from Tomlinson, New York City, with detailed comments on American sympathy for Cuban insurrectionists, a meeting for Negro colonization, the preaching of Henry Ward Beecher, a Democrat-Republican Locofoco meeting, a meeting at Metropolitan Hall to oppose the Maine Law; comments (1858) on a revival; articles relating to the activities of Charles Shelton, an American Home Missionary in Dell Rapids, Dakota, in the 1880s; and also letters (1861-74) from Theodore H. Peters and George Wynkoop of Bigelow, letters from Wynkoop and Peters to George W. Shelton, Birmingham, Connecticut, relating to the latter's interest in the Shelton Oil and Mining Company lands in Sheffield, Pennsylvania, and outlining plans for the expansion of the enterprise; and a quotation signed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

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Shelton family.

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Beecher, Catharine Esther, 1800-1878

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Educator Catharine Esther Beecher, a daughter of Lyman Beecher, was an advocate of education for women and of women teachers. In 1823 she founded the Hartford Female Seminary to educate young women. In 1846, she began a project to send female teachers from the Eastern states to western states and territories, and established training schools for women teachers in several western cities. From the description of Letter, 1847. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 548941345 ...

Brainard Cherokee Mission School.

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Brewster family.

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Shelton, Charles M.

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Tappan family.

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Hartford Female Seminary.

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Tappan, Anne M.

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Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887

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Abolitionist; orator; pastor of Plymouth Church, 1847-1887. From the description of Papers, [ca.1847]-1937, 1847-1887 (bulk) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155459715 American Congregational clergyman, lecturer, reformer, and author. From the guide to the Henry Ward Beecher papers, 1851-1896, n.d, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Congregationalist minister. From the description of Sermon notes, [n.d.], 1893, 18...

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown, New York in 1815. She organized the first Women's Rights Convention at Senecca Falls, New York, in 1848 and for more than fifty years thereafter was a crusader for women's rights, especially women's suffrage. She died in New York City in 1902....

Tomlinson family.

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Tomlinson, Joseph, Jr.

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Tappan, Lucy Pierce, 1821-1839

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Peters, Theodore H.

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Wynkoop, George.

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Shelton, George W.

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Shelton Oil and Mining Company.

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