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****   July 1888, page 467 of Vol.2
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****   July 1888, page 462 of Vol.2
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  • ... sure that she is going to make one of the best teachers we have ever had. Caution my brother to keep the expenses of the boarding dep't as low as possible. Yours sincerely ...

  • ****   July 1888, page 469 of Vol.2
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    ****   May 1889, page 531 of Vol.2
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  • ... ~ Southern Letter. 2 William Minot, fir. (~8 -~goo) was a Boston lawyer. His brother was the distinguished Harvard biologist Charles Sedgwick Minot ~ ~ 85~~ 9 ~ 4) . ...

  • ****   Apr. 1888, page 427 of Vol.2
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  • ... Matters in general are going about as usual. Your brother is up and out. Sincerely yours— .` ...

  • ****   Mar. 1888, page 425 of Vol.2
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  • ... being made upon us. We will pull through all right, however, I believe. Your brother has been ill for the last few days. He is better today and will doubtless, be out in a day or two. It has rained here almost ...

  • ****   July 1888, page 464 of Vol.2
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  • ... 47 Buckingham St. fBoston] July 8 1888 Dear Mr. Logan: I wrote my brother a few days ago to see you about paying cash for all goods for summer use. Sat. night I telegraphed you ...
  • ... I send it can be used in the manner mentionted]. My brother writes that merchants are charging ~5˘ for Lard. This 464 ...

  • ****   19 Jan. 1885, page 266 of Vol.2
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  • ... large amount every year for lumber. We would be at no expense for logs as we have them on our land. My brother John agrees to come 266 ...

  • ****   Jan. 1887, page 319 of Vol.2
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  • ... after ~ 886 because of financial reasons, and John W. Stakely, presumably her brother , was attempting to pay her board bill. From William B. Patersont ...

  • ****   June 1887, page 359 of Vol.2
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  • ... between New England and Hawaii. 2 Edward May Brewer (~84~-~9~9), brother of Eliza Brewer, active in the family shipping firm. ...

  • ****   Apr. 1889, page 526 of Vol.2
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  • ... make whatever arrangements with Miss RumIey3 she thought best. ~ now see that I shall have to leave details with you and my brother , as you are on the ground and can better direct matters than I can at ...

  • ****   Jan. 1888, page 405 of Vol.2
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  • ... learn to write, and write to Grandma. Give my love to your little brother s and Mama. to little John Washington4 and Aunt Susie.5 Tell me what your little brother is named. Any assistance you can give me ...
  • ... brother s and Mama. to little John Washington4 and Aunt Susie.5 Tell me what your little brother is named. Any assistance you can give me will be thankfully received. My wrist has not gotten well yet. No more ...

  • ***   Feb. 1888, page 416 of Vol.2
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    ***   Sept. 1888, page 480 of Vol.2
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    ***   July 1888, page 463 of Vol.2
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    ***   Jan. 1887, page 318 of Vol.2
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  • ... almost been cheated out of $60. Prof. owing to so much sickness in our family, I cannot possibly settle EInora's2 board bill. My little brother has been under Medical treatment for at least 3 months; and I am ...

  • ***   Nov. 1886, page 314 of Vol.2
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  • ... entered Tuskegee's night school in 1884 and remained for four and three years respectively, were Shepherd Harris's brother s. The thirteen-year-old boy mentioned by Bryant was probably Henry P. Clayton, who entered the day school in 1886 ...
  • ... ALS Con. 84 BTW Papers DLC. ~ Hiram R. Davidson, Olivia Davidson Washington's brother . It is not clear whether he was an inmate or an employee of the asylum in Columbus. According to ...
  • ... that Hiram written to you. I am glad poor Hiram he is to be pitied, more than censured poor brother ." (Con. ~ 7, BTW Papers, DLC.) 2 Eliza Davidson, the mother of Olivia Davidson Washington, was a slave in ...

  • ***   22 Apr. 1882, page 201 of Vol.2
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  • ... one of the founders of Yale and graduated from Yale's divinity school. His older brother , of whom he wrote a biography (~894), was William A. Buckingham, Connecticut governor and U.S. senator. ...

  • ***   Apr. 1887, page 341 of Vol.2
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  • ... movement, Garrison aecu~lated one of the most complete collections of antislavery literature in the country and coauthored with his brother , Wendell Phillips Garrison, a biography of William Lloyd Garrison (~889~. In 1899 he raised money ...

  • ***   1 July 1879, page 76 of Vol.2
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  • ... in his second year. In addition he made substantial contributions to the student account of his adopted brother James during 1879-80, $~4.65 in December and $33.48 in March, and a small contribution to the account of his future first wife, ...
  • ... 2 BTW induced several of his pupils to go to Hampton. In addition to James Washington and Fanny Smith, his brother John also attended. According to Dr. Samuel E. Courtney, a prominent Boston physician who grew up in Malden, ...

  • ***   June 1881, page 134 of Vol.2
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  • ... business training in Newburyport, Mass. After operating a Boston china-importing firm for many years with his brother Richard, he retired because of ill health. On a recuperative trip to Hampton in 1878, he became interested in Hampton Institute. ...

  • ***   16 July 1884, page 258 of Vol.2
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  • ... of the Negro in various ways for the last twenty years have been rather too much to array him against his white brother than to put the two races in cooperation with each other. Thus Massachusetts supports the ...
  • ... The Negro's new faith in the white man is being reciprocated in proportion as the Negro is rightly educated. The white brother is beginning to learn by degrees that all Negroes are not liars and chicken thieves. ...

  • ***   16 July 1884, page 257 of Vol.2
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  • ... men work that they may be able to remain in school, while the miserable unlettered " brother in white" would say, "You can't learn a Digger anything." Brains, property, and character for the Negro will ...
  • ... tise his profession he was the first to professionally enter the exConfederate capital. When his white brother physicians found out by a six days' examination that he had brains enough to pass a better ...

  • ***   1888, page 501 of Vol.2
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  • ... cian.2 He was the first to professionally enter the ax-confederate capitol. When his white brother physicians found out by a six day's examination that he had as one of them said, that he had brains enough to ...

  • ***   Mar. 1883, page 225 of Vol.2
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  • ... town with orders to burn Tuskegee to the ground. An officer in Wilson's command discovered, however, that Ed Varner, who had been his fraternity brother at Yale, lay wounded at "The Grey Columns." The officer interceded to save the town. ...

  • ***   Mar. 1882, page 182 of Vol.2
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  • ... What he has done, said he, no one knows. Disregarding the advice of his brother officers he went right in among the despairing savage prisoners, without a guard; met them when they were desperate enough ...

  • ***   21 Apr. 1886, page 302 of Vol.2
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  • ... which asks how can we make the women of our race stronger intellectually. ~ would not have you think, especially you my brother teachers, that we are seeking to find out how we can produce more "strong ...

  • ***   July 1887, page 372 of Vol.2
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  • ... Canty,7 M. C. Williams,8 Chambl~ss,9 Watkins,~° James Johnston (my brother ), Hubbard and my self. They all like here very well but R. E. Anderson he is speaking of going home Sunday. Please let me ...

  • ***   10 June 1875, page 61 of Vol.2
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  • ... to the Uncle Neds and the newspaper men. Col. Benjamin S. Ewell, president of William and Mary college, and brother of the famous confederate general, in the course of the afternoon speeches, spoke ...

  • ***   Apr. 1888, page 441 of Vol.2
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  • ... not rejoice at the misfortune of the southern white man, for he is my brother , but I do feel it a duty to urge that his extremity is our opportunity to buy the foundation for a high civilization that is fraught with ...

  • **   10 June 1875, page 55 of Vol.2
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  • ... of Richard Tolman as Hampton chaplain in 187~. 26 William N. Armstrong' brother of Samuel C. Armstrong, was born and raised in Hawaii, where he was a schoolmate of David Kalakaua, who later be- ...

  • **   Mar. 1883, page 222 of Vol.2
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    **   Dec. 1887, page 395 of Vol.2
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  • ... 2 Francis J. Grimke was born in Charleston, S.C., Nov. 4, 1850. He and his brother Archibald were children of a slave mother and a wealthy planter father, Henry Grimke, whose sisters, Sarah and Angelina, were prominent abolitionists. ...
  • ... Freed upon his father's death in 185a and put under the guardianship of his white half- brother , Francis Grimke escaped at the age of ten when his half- brother threatened to reenslave him. He served as a Confederate officer's valet for two ...
  • ... remainder of the war. After attending school briefly in Charleston, Grimke went north with his brother Archibald, eventually gaining entry to Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. While he was at Lincoln his Aunt Angelina, now the wife of ...

  • **   15 Apr.-14 July 1882, page 200 of Vol.2
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  • ... dictionary. He was a staunch Congregationalist and a liberal contributor to church missionary activities. His younger brother , Homer Merriam (~8~3-~908), moved to Springfield and joined G. & C. Merriam in 1855, becoming a full partner in 1876 ...

  • **   Jan. 1882, page 177 of Vol.2
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  • ... 9 Lucy Douglas Gillett of Westfield, Mass., served on the Hampton faculty from ~879 to 188~. Her brother , the Springfield lawyer Frederick Huntington Gillett, served thirty-two years in the U.S. House of Representatives. ...
  • ... Frissell had influential family connections that were useful to Hampton Institute. His brother Algernon Sydney Frissell was president of the Fifth Avenue Bank. In 1883 he married Julia, daughter of Amzi Dodd, a prominent New Jersey judge. ...

  • **   Jan. 1882, page 176 of Vol.2
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  • ... may have come to know Olivia Davidson either at Hampton or at Framingham. The Rev. Samuel May of Leicester' Mass. ~ ~ 8 ~ o-gg ), her older brother , was a long-time secretary of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society and for two decades ...

  • **   1860, page 6 of Vol.2
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  • ... at Hale's Ford, Franklin County, Va. BTW remembered in Up from Slavery that his older brother had shared with him a rag pallet on the dirt floor and that John had volunteered to wear his stiff new flaxen shirt until it was broken in ...
  • ... John had volunteered to wear his stiff new flaxen shirt until it was broken in enough for the younger brother to wear. When BTW went to Hampton, John continued to work in the Malden salt mines, helping to support the family and ...
  • ... ing to one of Carver's biographers, Rackham Holt, John H. Washington protested his brother 's decision to hire Carver. "We don't need what they call a scientific agriculturist. We need a dairyman," he told BTW shortly after Carver's arrival. ...
  • ... absent, acting principal. John H. Washington played a smaller role in the affairs of the institute after his brother 's death. He retired in 19~9 and died five years later. ...

  • **   July 1883, page 236 of Vol.2
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  • ... Coleridge-Taylor, the Afro-British composer. In the summer of ~ 907 her stepmother and brother , E. Davidson Washington, came over to meet her; they traveled to Rome, Venice, and elsewhere in Europe. ...

  • **   Mar. 1889, page 515 of Vol.2
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  • ... father died when she was seven years old and that she went the next day to live with white Quaker schoolteachers, a brother and sister named Sanders. (Scott, "Mrs. Booker T. Washington's Part in Her lIusband's Work," 42.) No one of ...

  • **   Oct. 1880, page 91 of Vol.2
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  • ... died the following year. 7 Kawhat, brother of White Breast, changed his name to Thomas Suckley. A Mandan from the Dakota Territory, he was twelve when he entered Hampton in ...

  • *   Items from the Hampton Institute Student Account Book, October 1872-June 1875, page 539 of Vol.2
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  • ... $4. ~ 2, because he was financially aiding his brother John, then a student at Hampton, and because the Malden school district had fallen ...