unmarried living with parents in 1860
Secretary of the Board of Managers of the House of Destitute Colored Children
Board of Managers of the Philadelphia Women's Medical College and the Philadelphia Women's Hospital
established the first free Kindergarten in Philadelphia in 1879
founder (1882) and President of the Children's Aid Society
Chairman of Committee of Women Visitors for Philadelphia County, 1882-1899
educator and member of the Philadelphia School Board 1887-1900 (first woman ever appointed)
She was an abolitionist like her father and began teaching black children at the age of 15 by volunteering her time. During the Civil War, she ran her father's house which had turned into a Union Hospital. Among those treated here were Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (3 times) and Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner after he was bludgeoned in the Senate Chambers by Senator Brooks of South Carolina. Her resignation from the Philadelphia School Board in 1900 was reported in the Phil. Inquirer of 13 Nov 1900 and was received with great sadness.
Philadelphia Co. Wills, Book 265, pp 344-349, No. 923
Will of Anna Hallowell, Philadelphia
dated: 15 Dec 1897; died: 6 Apr 1905 at 11:45am; proved: 15 Apr 1905
To niece Anna Norwood Davis, wife of Horace A. Davis and daughter of Norwood P. Hallowell and Sarah W. Hallowell: $25,000; and the Letters Patent of the United States held in trust for her by her brother Richard P. Hallowell and bequeathed to her from the estate of Thomas W. Sweeney of Phila.
To sisters Emily Hallowell and Susan M. Hallowell: all remaining property and residue of estate along with all paraphernalia, effects, books, pictures, furniture and objects; and on their death - all to go to niece Anna Norwood Davis
Executor to sell any property he deems appropriate in order to pay all debts
Codicil dated 30 Mar 1900:
All property and effects inherited from her mother Hannah P. Hallowell to be included as residual property to sisters and niece as in above and described in a small book to be found with the will
Exec: brother Norwood P. Hallowell
Wits: George Peirce, Joseph T. Foulke, and Paul de Moll
See also:
William Wade Hinshaw database online Orem, UT: Ancestry.com, 1998; original: Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards Bros., 1938-.
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