Historical Images of Women & Their Writings (Divinity Library)

Photograph M[ary]. Agnes Hathaway was born Dec. 2, 1863, in Bristol, N.Y., and raised in a Universalist family. She graduated in 1888 from Genesee Wesley University and taught school in New York State for about ten years before becoming Dean of Women at...

Photograph Clara Cook Helvie was born Jan. 24, 1876, in Chaumont, Jefferson County, N.Y. Because of her mother's early death, she was raised by her relatives, Mr. and Mrs. John Bailey, in Buffalo, N.Y. She attended public schools in Buffalo and graduated...

Photo Postcard Postcard dated July 10, 1939. [ Sharp, Waitstill Hastings (5 folders), includes photographs]

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Photograph The children of Christopher Rhodes Eliot and Mary Jackson May Eliot in March 1895 (from left): Frederick May Eliot (September 15, 1889-February 17, 1958) was born in Dorchester and received an AB in 1911, an AM in 1912, and an STD in 1915 from...

Photograph Lucy Clark Ware Allen (1791-1866) was the oldest surviving child of Henry and Mary Clark Ware. She married Joseph Allen in 1818. She was active in the life of the home, church, and town. Joseph and Lucy Allen had seven children. Two sons...

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Postcard The Blackmer Universalist Girl's Home in Tokyo, Japan, was started in 1902 and prospered until World War II. For more information, see: Miller, Russell E. The Larger Hope: The Second Century of the Universalist Church in America, 1870-1970...

Photograph William Ladd Chaffin was born in Oxford, Maine, on August 16, 1837. His father died when he was eight months old, and he was raised by his father's sister in Concord, New Hampshire. After graduating from high school, he worked in his uncle's...