Call Number:

SC.012

Repository:

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Extent:

.1 linear ft. (.1 linear feet (5 folders.))

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College, Ruth Anne Hillborn Papers, 1806-1868.

Date:

1806-1868 (inclusive)

Creator:

Bailey, John, 1776-1861, Women's Aid Association of Philadelphia, and Hillborn, Ruth Anne, 1832-1869

Abstract:

This collection includes the journal of Ruth Anne Hillborn from 1864-1868. She relates events concerning the emancipation of enslaved people, the U. S. Civil War, and the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln. She also describes Lucretia Mott and her ministry. This collection also includes miscellaneous poetry, a facsimile letter to the Women's Aid Association of Philadelphia about efforts in freedman's relief, a letter from John Bailey on Quaker ministry, and extracts from an account of the death of George F. White.

Ruth Anne Hillborn was a Quaker teacher and principal of the Monthly Meeting School at Race Street. The daughter of John and Mary B. (Smith) Hillborn, she was born in 1832 and died in 1869.