Lives of girls who became famous.

  • Bolton, Sarah Knowles, 1841-1916.
Date:
1886
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Credit: Lives of girls who became famous. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material is part of the Elmer Belt Florence Nightingale collection. The original may be consulted at University of California Libraries.

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    thrown into the river. The feeling became so in- tense, that the houses of free colored people were burned, some killed, and the seminary was in dan- ger from the mob. The members of Professor Stowe's family slept with firearms, ready to defend their lives. Finally the trustees of the college for- bade all slavery discussion by the students, and as a result, nearly the whole body left the institution. Dr. Beecher, meantime, was absent at the East, havino- raised a larsje sum of monev for the semi- nary, and came back only to find his labor almost hopeless. For several years, however, he and his children stayed and worked on. Mrs. Stowe opened her house to colored children, whom she taught with her own. One bright bo}' in her school was claimed by an estate in Kentucky, arrested, and was to be sold at auction. The half-crazed mother appealed to Mrs. Stowe, who raised the needed money among her friends, and thus saved the lad. Finall}^ worn out wit4i the '' irrepressible conflict, the Beecher family, with the Stowes, came North in 1850, Mr. Stowe accepting a professorship at Bow- doin College, Brunswick. Maine. A few boarders were taken into the family to'eke out the limited salary, and Mrs. Stowe earned a little from a sketch written now and then for the newspapers. She had even obtained a prize of fifty dollars for a New England story. Her six brothers had fulfilled their mother's d^ing wish, and were all in the ministry. She was now forty years old, a devoted mother,