Papers of the Blackwell family, 1831-1981, folder 70

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Papers of the Blackwell family, 1831-1981, folder 70

Blackwell family

1831

The collection consists of correspondence, financial records, photographs, writings, and other papers of four generations of the U.S. branch of the Blackwell family assembled by George Washington Blackwell and his descendants. They record family activities, travel, professional work, and civic and reform involvements of a physically farflung but emotionally close-knit family. Of particular interest are the descriptions of medical education and practice in the letters of Elizabeth and Emily; the accounts of Anna's freelance newspaper work; and the records pertaining to George and Howard's real estate businesses. There are also accounts of school-teaching in the letters of Elizabeth, Emily, Emma Lawrence Blackwell, and her mother Sarah Stone Lawrence. Lucy Stone's activism against slavery and for woman's suffrage, and her Oberlin College experience are mentioned. Phoebe Stone Beeman describes life as a member of the first class of women at Wesleyan University (1876). The bulk of the collection centers on George and Emma Lawrence Blackwell and their children: Howard Lane, who married Helen Thomas, and Anna, who married Charles Belden. These papers illustrate family relationships, household management, club and reform activity, and social life in Orange, New Jersey and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Blackwell Family Papers. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

Samuel, sugar refiner, and Hannah (Lane) Blackwell emigrated from England in 1832 and settled with their nine children in Cincinnati, Ohio. After Samuel's death in 1838, the family opened a school. Later the sons went into business. Samuel, a bookkeeper and business agent, married Antoinette Brown Blackwell, first woman to be ordained as a minister in the Congregational Church. Henry was involved in sugar refining and, with his suffragist wife, Lucy Stone, founded and edited The Woman's Journal. Howard returned to work in England and died there, and George Washington made a fortune in real estate and development. None of the five sisters married; Anna was a poet, translator, and journalist based mainly in Paris, France; Marian kept house for her relatives and settled eventually near Elizabeth in Hastings, England. Elizabeth and Emily were pioneering physicians and founders of the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, and Ellen taught school and wrote a biography of Anna Ella Carroll. The third generation consists of the children of Samuel, Henry, and George, and the adopted children of Elizabeth, Emily, and Ellen, and the fourth generation consists of George's grandchildren.

Materials in English.

Electronic finding aid available http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:RAD.SCHL:sch00050

There is related material: Blackwell family papers at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

Students

Antislavery movements

Cooking

Home economics

Real estate business

Vivisection

Women in medicine

Women in science

Women physicians

Women

Societies and clubs

Suffrage

Journalists

Physicians

Teachers

Social life and customs

Orlov, P. N. (Petr Nikolaevich)

Jex-Blake, Sophia, 1849-1912

Blackwell, Sarah Ellen, 1828-1901

Blackwell, Kitty Barry, 1848-1936

Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906

Beecher, Catharine Esther, 1800-1878

Beeman, Phoebe Stone

Belden, Anna Blackwell, 1883-1978

Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950

Blackwell, Anna, active 1875-1876

Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa Brown, 1825-1921

Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910

Blackwell, Emily, 1826-1910

Blackwell, Emma Stone Lawrence, 1851-1920

Blackwell family

Blackwell, George Washington, 1832-1912

Blackwell, Hannah Lane, 1792-1870

Blackwell, Helen Electa Thomas, 1880-1972

Blackwell, H. B. (Henry Browne), 1825-1909

Blackwell, Howard Lane, 1877-1972

Blackwell, John Howard, 1831-1866

Blackwell, Marian, 1818-1897

Blackwell, Samuel, 1790-1838

Blackwell, Samuel Charles, 1823-1901

Bodichon, Barbara Leigh Smith, 1827-1891

Carroll, Anna Ella, 1815-1894

Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947

Davies, Emily, 1830-1921

Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

Jacobi, Mary Putnam, 1842-1906

Jones, Agnes Blackwell

Livermore, Mary A. (Mary Ashton), 1820-1905

Mayhew, Florence Blackwell

Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873

Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910

Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893

Vassar, Matthew, 1792-1868

Oberlin College

Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.)

Harvard Library

English

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1831

Harvard Library

Students

Antislavery movements

Cooking

Home economics

Real estate business

Vivisection

Women in medicine

Women in science

Women physicians

Women

Societies and clubs

Suffrage

Social life and customs

Orlov, P. N. (Petr Nikolaevich)

Jex-Blake, Sophia, 1849-1912

Blackwell, Sarah Ellen, 1828-1901

Blackwell, Kitty Barry, 1848-1936

Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906

Beecher, Catharine Esther, 1800-1878

Beeman, Phoebe Stone

Belden, Anna Blackwell, 1883-1978

Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950

Blackwell, Anna, active 1875-1876

Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa Brown, 1825-1921

Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910

Blackwell, Emily, 1826-1910

Blackwell, Emma Stone Lawrence, 1851-1920

Blackwell family

Blackwell, George Washington, 1832-1912

Blackwell, Hannah Lane, 1792-1870

Blackwell, Helen Electa Thomas, 1880-1972

Blackwell, Henry Browne, 1825-1909

Blackwell, Howard Lane, 1877-1972

Blackwell, John Howard, 1831-1866

Blackwell, Marian, 1818-1897

Blackwell, Samuel, 1790-1838

Blackwell, Samuel Charles, 1823-1901

Bodichon, Barbara Leigh Smith, 1827-1891

Carroll, Anna Ella, 1815-1894

Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947

Davies, Emily, 1830-1921

Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

Jacobi, Mary Putnam, 1842-1906

Jones, Agnes Blackwell

Livermore, Mary A. (Mary Ashton), 1820-1905

Mayhew, Florence Blackwell

Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873

Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910

Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893

Vassar, Matthew, 1792-1868

Oberlin College

Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.)