Manuscript/Mixed Material Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, Henry Browne, account; 1 of 3
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Image 1 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … BLACKWELL FAMILY LUCY STONE Subject File Biographical Papers Account by Henry B Blackwell- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1759
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Image 2 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … written 1898 Reminiscences of Lucy Stone 109 The first time I ever saw or heard of Miss Lucy Stone was in or about 1849 In 1848 with my brother Samuel C Blackwell…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1759
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Image 3 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 110 her visit Luther was suddenly carried off by cholera after a few hours illness leaving his business affairs in an unsettled condition Lucy attended to his funeral the sale of his…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1759
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Image 4 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 112 described and was the story told with such graphic language and intensity of feeling that the audience was melted into tears The beautiful motherliness which was characteristic of her fairly glowed…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1759
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Image 5 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 114 the farm So off I started to introduce myself to Lucy It was a beautiful summer morning in June and the country looked extremely beautiful I walked out to Deacon Henshaws…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1759
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Image 6 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 116 that flocked to hear her From them she cleared over and above expenses 5000 which with characteristic generosity she loaned to our firm on interest and which after our marriage I…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1759
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Image 7 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 118 During that and subsequent years while in the city she boarded with a family named Crosby on Hanover st paying for her food and lodging 25 cents a day sharing room…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1759
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Image 8 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 120 on the north side of Cornhill In October 1853 I met Lucy at a womans rights convention in Cleveland O which was very largely attended By previous arrangement I joined her…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1759
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Image 9 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 122 prepared a poem for the occasion which I was in the act of reciting and was exclaiming with much fervor an stanza of an original poem written for a celebration of…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1759
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Image 10 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 124 conservative business friends and especially my competitors in the wholesale hardware business were greatly scandalized I had a large number of customers in Southern and central Indiana and Illinois natives of…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1759
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Image 11 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 126 daguerrotype artist named Ball in Cincinnati where I secured two excellent likenesses of her in a small gold locket from which in 1894 40 years later I have had enlarged photographs…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1759
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Image 12 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 128 129 LS HBB Wedding As I came through Western Massachusetts I was struck by the great lateness of New England Spring Snow drifts were still visible in the hollows of the…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1759
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Image 13 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 130 131 Ceremony the assembled party as a portion of the marriage service Old Mr Stone gave Lucy me as his parting advice Never both get angry at once and brother Bowman…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1759
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Image 14 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 132 insert When we reached my mothers little brick house tired and languid from the long railroad ride and the contrast between the cool bracing air we had left in New England…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1759
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Image 15 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 134 135 was about to dispatch the others and herself when she was disarmed and captured The affair caused great excitement The slaves were brought before US Commissioner Pendery a tool of…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
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Image 16 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 136 137 given up carried over to Kentucky and sent down the river where Margarets baby was drowned by falling from its mothers arms when the boat lurched the mother making no…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1759
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Image 17 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 138 139 Mr Ostrom and introducing him to my customers In the Spring before moving East which was Lucys preference as well as my own I arranged to meet Lucy in Chicago…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1759
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Image 18 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 140 141 frame building which some enthusiastic reformer had erected and christened Humanitys Barn He was a landreformer and socialist and wished to extend hospitality fraternity to the whole human race At…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1759
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Image 19 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 142 143 Lucy spoke by invitation at a 4th of July celebration in a grove While she was speaking a part of the staging gave way She waited quietly until the alarm…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1759
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Image 20 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 144 145 adjoining a Scotch farmer named Stevenson a beautiful tract of oak openings which we half wished to retain for its beauty Later in the summer we spent a few days…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1759
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Image 21 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 146 147 wife Rev Antoinette Brown recently married Seeking home During that winter and Spring Lucy I visited various suburbs of New York in search of a country home complicated by the…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
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Image 22 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 148 149 About this time I bought an interest from Cull Saxon Augustus O Moores partner in the firm of Cull Saxton Co publishers of agricultural books 144 Fulton St New York…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1759
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Image 23 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 150 151 It was in September 14 1857 that Alice was born My sister Emily was present at the confinement I was at home finances After our marriage and for several years…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1759
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Image 24 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 152 153 to live from 1857 Absent all day in New York and during my frequent business trips in the West absent for months at a time the baby was at once…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1759
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Image 25 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 154 155 the speakers were Lucy Stone and Henry Ward Beecher my wife did no speaking in public during that and several subsequent years Domestic and family cares and preoccupations absorbed her…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
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Image 26 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 156 157 who naturally felt hurt at my apparent indifference On our way to Chicago I remember we crossed the Detroit river on a ferry boat in the middle of the night…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1759
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Image 27 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 158 159 friend of woman suffrage During that pleasant summer Lucy used to walk with little Alice to the railroad station to meet me on my return from Chicago When I approached…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
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Image 28 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 160 161 various colors on the shade Back in Orange In 1860 I was we were back in Orange Mr Moores health having failed he sold out the Agricultural book business to…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1759
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Image 29 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 162 163 HBB NY office During the two years I remained in the real estate business I had an office in Orange near my house on Main St above Day St which…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1759
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Image 30 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 164 165 I am situated on the beautiful mountain slope above Montclair on the Valley Road to Paterson There we kept a horse and carriage and man I went daily to the…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1759
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Image 31 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 166 167 The period of our residence in Orange was with the interlude of our one years stay in Chicago and vicinity from 1858 to 1862 During these years the war was…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1759
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Image 32 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 168 169 reputation but not yet of national fame on some point of law He was on his way from the court house to his office in the act of crossing the…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1759
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Image 33 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 170 171 always maintained an affection and esteem for Lucy and absolute faith in her He took a lively interest in our small gardening and farming affairs and gave us much good…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
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Image 34 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 172 173 conversation and sunny and amiable in manners Beecher Tilton Scandal It is sad to think of the moral perversion which culminated some years later in a breach between himself and…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1759
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Image 35 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 174 175 of my weekday life in New York I remember also we had on one occasion a visit from Lucys brother Bowman who assisted our two men Cooper and Anthony in…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1759
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Image 36 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 176 social advantages made us decide in the fall of 1862 or 3 to move into New York Accordingly we engaged board with a Mrs Palmer corner Gramercy Park 3 Ave and…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1759
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Image 37 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 178 serious at the time was in satisfying the tenant who occupied the stone house below us on the opposite side of Valley Road Mrs Rortright was a lady of Dutch descent…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1759
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Image 38 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 180 he was delightful in social intercourse polished genial and aside from his hobbies one of the most amiable and agreeable of men His only intimate associate was a quiet modest middle…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1759
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Image 39 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 182 Anthony and others in organizing the Womans Loyal League and a few years later in forming The American Equal Rights Association which demanded the extension of suffrage alike for negroes and…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1759
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Image 40 of Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, … 184 family named Homer then in one at Greenland NH and finally with Mrs Mary Ann Blair of Warren Mass an old friend of my wifes There she was very happybut a…- Contributor: Blackwell Family
- Date: 1759
About this Item
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- Blackwell Family Papers: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960; Subject File, 1853-1960; Biographical papers; Blackwell, Henry Browne, account; 1 of 3
Names
- Blackwell family
Created / Published
- 1759 - 1960
Headings
- - Physicians
- - Woman's journal (Boston, Mass. : 1870)
- - Antislavery movements--United States
- - Abolitionists
- - Women--Suffrage--United States
- - Women's rights--United States
- - Blackwell family
- - Social problems--United States
- - Women periodical editors--United States
- - Women physicians--England
- - Women physicians--New York (N.Y.)
- - Women physicians--United States
- - Suffragists
- - Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950. Alice Stone Blackwell papers
- - Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa Brown, 1825-1921. Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell papers
- - Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910. Elizabeth Blackwell papers
- - Blackwell, Emily, 1826-1910. Emily Blackwell papers
- - Blackwell, Henry Browne, 1825-1909. Henry Browne Blackwell papers
- - Blackwell, Kitty Barry, 1848-1936. Kitty Barry Blackwell papers
- - Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893. Lucy Stone papers
- - Manuscripts
- - United States
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- Manuscripts
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- series: Lucy Stone Papers, 1759-1960
- mss12880, box 86; reel 68
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- Blackwell family papers
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- Manuscript Division
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- Abolitionists
- Antislavery Movements
- Blackwell Family
- Blackwell, Alice Stone,. Alice Stone Blackwell Papers
- Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa Brown,. Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell Papers
- Blackwell, Elizabeth,. Elizabeth Blackwell Papers
- Blackwell, Emily,. Emily Blackwell Papers
- Blackwell, Henry Browne,. Henry Browne Blackwell Papers
- Blackwell, Kitty Barry,. Kitty Barry Blackwell Papers
- England
- Manuscripts
- New York (N.Y.)
- Physicians
- Social Problems
- Stone, Lucy,. Lucy Stone Papers
- Suffrage
- Suffragists
- United States
- Woman's Journal (Boston, Mass. : 1870)
- Women
- Women Periodical Editors
- Women Physicians
- Women's Rights