Hallowell family
The Hallowell family is an American family from Boston and Philadelphia, notable for their activism in the abolitionist movement and for their philanthropy to various universities and civil rights organizations.[1] [2][3] The Hallowell's are frequently associated with Boston Brahmin culture.[4][5] It has been said that in Boston, the Lords prayer includes the phrase, Hallowell be thy name, instead of hallowed be thy name.[6][7]
Notable members
Benjamin Hallowell Carew: His mother, Mary (Boylston) Hallowell, was the daughter of Thomas Boylston, and a first cousin of Susanna Boylston, the mother of the 2nd President of the United States, John Adams, and grandmother of the 6th President, John Quincy Adams. He was a brother of Ward Nicholas Boylston and a nephew of Governor Moses Gill.[8]
Ward Nicholas Boylston: A merchant and benefactor of Harvard. The Town of Boylston, Massachusetts as well as Boylston Street in Boston and in Jamaica Plane are named for him.[9][10]
Benjamin Hallowell: A Boston merchant and one of the Kennebec Proprietors, holders of land originally granted to the Plymouth Company by the British monarchy in the 1620s. The city of Hallowell, Maine is named for him.[11]
Morris Longstreth Hallowell: was born in Pennsylvania where he inherited and successfully ran a China import trade business. In 1831 he married Hannah Smith Penrose.[12] Morris became a director of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the First National Bank. His summer home was a stop on the underground railroad, and he gave much of his wealth to the Union. He was a founding member of the Union League of Philadelphia.[13]
May Hallowell Loud: Artist, suffragist and great granddaughter of Lucretia Mott.
Sarah Catherine Fraley Hallowell
Sarah Tyson Hallowell: An American art curator, quaker, and granddaughter of Elisha Tyson.[14]
Edward Hallowell (herpetologist)
Norwood Penrose Hallowell: A colonel in the 54th Massachusetts regiment.[15] In the Civil War Film, Glory (1989 film), Norwood Penrose Hallowell and his brother were recreated as the fictional character, Major Cabot-Forbes, portrayed by actor Cary Elwes.[16][17]
Edward Needles Hallowell: An officer in the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment.[18]
Richard Price Hallowell: Director of the National Bank of Commerce. Hallowell was a trustee, vice president, and president, of the Medford Savings Bank. He campaigned for the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution granting African American men the right to vote. He helped to establish schools for freed slaves in the South and served as manager of the "Home for Aged Colored Women" in Boston. He also acted as a financial agent of the Tuskegee Institute in Boston and served as a trustee of the Calhoun Colored School in Alabama. At the request of Booker T. Washington, he solicited funds to pay legal fees to test Jim Crow election laws prohibiting African Americans from voting in Louisiana and Alabama. He also helped raised $30,000 to support the New Century Cotton Mills, which was to be an "all-black cotton mill" owned and operated by Africans Americans. He served as Vice President of the Women's Suffrage Association, and was a founding member and treasurer of the Free Religious Association.[19][20]
References
- Roberts, Ellwood (1904). Biographical Annals of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Containing Genealogical Records of Representative Families, Including Many of the Early Settlers and Biographical Sketches of Prominent Citizens. T. S. Benham.
- A Record of the Streets, Alleys, Places, Etc. in the City of Boston. City of Boston Printing Department. 1910.
- Column, Lydia Doskocil Guest. "The history behind Boylston's name". telegram.com. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
- Hallowell, William Penrose (1893). Record of a branch of the Hallowell family, including the Longstreth, Penrose, and Norwood branches. New York Public Library. Philadelphia, Hallowell.
- "The New Brahmins". Boston Magazine. 2006-05-15. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
- "Integration: What Happens to the Kids". Time. 1963-08-16. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
- Association, Grant Family (1899). Report of the ... Reunion of the Grant Family Association ... 1st-8th.
- "Boylston Family Papers, 1688-1979". www.masshist.org. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
- Column, Lydia Doskocil Guest. "The history behind Boylston's name". telegram.com. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
- A Record of the Streets, Alleys, Places, Etc. in the City of Boston. City of Boston Printing Department. 1910.
- "About Hallowell - Hallowell, ME". hallowell.govoffice.com. Retrieved 2020-08-16.
- Leach, Josiah Granville (1903). History of the Penrose Family of Philadelphia. private circulation.
- Leach, Josiah Granville (1903). History of the Penrose Family of Philadelphia. private circulation.
- Lapsansky, Emma Jones (2003-01-26). Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption, 1720-1920. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-3692-7.
- "Fifteen Minutes: The Old Boys' Clubs | Magazine | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
- Anderson, John (September 2019). "Medford Historical Society and Museum Newsletter" (PDF). Medford Historical. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- www.americaninno.com https://www.americaninno.com/boston/inside-the-most-elite-old-boys-clubs-in-boston/. Retrieved 2020-04-26. Missing or empty
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(help) - Feliz, Elyce (2014-07-26). "The Civil War of the United States: Edward Needles Hallowell, died July 26, 1871". The Civil War of the United States. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
- "Richard Price Hallowell". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
- Washington, Booker T.; Harlan, Louis R. (1976). Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 5: 1899-1900. Assistant Editor, Barbara S. Kraft. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-00627-2.