Emily Howland
Emily Howland (born November 20, 1827 in Sherwood , New York , † January 29, 1929 ) was an American educator and philanthropist .
life and work
Howland was born to Slocum and Hanna (Tallcott) Howland and was taught at both a private school in Sherwood and a Friends School in Philadelphia . From 1857 to 1859 she taught at the Normal School for Colored Girls in Washington, DC (now the University of the District of Columbia ) and ran the school for Myrtilla Miner for two years . During the Civil War she lived in Arlington County , Virginia , where she taught freed slaves from 1863 to 1864 and helped the sick during a smallpox epidemic. From 1964 to 1866 she was the head of the camp. In 1867, when it became apparent that the government would not keep its promise to grant land to every freed slave, she persuaded her father to buy 400 acres in Heathville, Virginia. Here she began to relocate former slave families and to found a school. With the help of her father's funding, she started Howland Chapel School to teach the children of ex-slaves. She founded or supported a total of about 50 schools for African American people . In 1870 she returned to her sick father in Sherwood and in 1872 founded and financed the Sherwood Select School. Ten years later, she was the owner and advisory manager until she was 100. In 1927 Sherwood Select School (now Emily Howland School) was added to the public school system. She also supported the Tuskegee Institute , run by a personal friend, Booker T. Washington .
From 1884 to 1885 she traveled through Europe accompanied by her niece Isabel. 1890 attended the 22nd annual meeting of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association (NYSWSA) and was elected to several standing committees. Also in 1890 she became director of the Aurora National Bank in Aurora, Cayuga County, New York and thus the first director of a national bank . She held this board seat until she died at the age of 101. In 1903 she traveled to London for an international suffrage meeting. She was credited with convincing Ezra Cornell that, as a Quaker , he should make Cornell University a co-educational institution. At the turn of the 20th century she was one of the two largest donors to support the work of Susan B. Anthony . She was also the author of a historical sketch of early Quaker history in Cayuga County, NY, in 1882: Early History of Friends in Cayuga County, New York. In 1926, the State University of New York awarded her as the first woman an honorary doctorate in literature.
She died in 1929 at the age of 101, and the New York State Education Department placed a historical marker in front of her home in 1935.
Her papers from her estate are on hold at Cornell University , Haverford College , and Swarthmore College . The National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Library of Congress jointly own an subscription with photos of their family, friends and colleagues as well as souvenir pictures of well-known abolitionists and famous personalities from the 1860s and 1870s .
literature
- Breault, Judith Colucci: The world of Emily Howland: odyssey of a humanitarian, 1979, ISBN 978-0890879047 .
- Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary Ashton Livermore: A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life, Moulton, 1893.
- Bacon, Margaret Hope: Mothers of feminism: the story of Quaker women in America, San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1989.
- James, Edward T .: Notable American Women, 1607-1950. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971.
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| SURNAME | Howland, Emily |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American educator and philanthropist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 20, 1827 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sherwood , New York |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 1929 |