The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.2, page 145, July 1881, U. of Illinois Press

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JULY 1881 ~ Robert H. Hamilton. 2 Boswell S. White, born in Matthews County, Va., in 1856, attended Hampton, where he was a member of the Hampton Singers. After graduating in 1877 he taught school in Matthews County before leaving for Boston in ~ 884. 3 Ann Eliza Davis, born in Whitewell, Va., in 1854, graduated from Hampton in 1878 and served as assistant in the sewing department there until her death in 188~. To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall Tuskegee, Ala., July 23 188 Dear Gent: I telegraphed you yesterday that I would not need Miss Snodgrass,~ but think that it was kind in her to volunteer to come. Accidently I found out that John W. Cardwel1,2 a graduate of Hampton in the class of 75 and who has also graduated at Lincoln University, was very near here and could come at very small expertise and stay till Miss Davidson. You will remember him as a ''singer.'' He begins with me Monday. Just what the traveling expenses are from there here, I could not find out here, and I thought this would be the safe plan as it is questionable whether one would be made whole or not coming from there, for so short a time. The school does not board Miss Davidson or pay traveling expenses. Her salary will be $45 per m. for this term. Board about $~e per m. Yours truly B. T. Washington ALS BTW Folder President's Once Vault AliHaI. Margaret E. Snodgrass was born in Bellefont, Ala., in 1854, and received her education in the public schools of Battle Creek, Mich., where her parents had fled from slavery. She attended Hampton during the school year 1878-79 and taught school in several Virginia towns before going to Tuskegee in 188~. For three years she taught the Negro public school of Tuskegee as a demonstration school for Tuskegee's normal program. In 1884 Miss Snodgrass taught in an Alabama school that had once housed the shop where her father had worked as a slave. 2 John W. Cardwell (~856-86), born in Rockingham County, N.C., attended Hampton Institute as one of the Hampton Singers and graduated in ~ 875. He taught school in his home county before joining the Tuskegee faculty for the ~ 88~ school year. He left Tuskegee to go to Clark University in Atlanta. I45