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William E. Benson letter to Emily Howland
Title:
William E. Benson letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by African American educator William E. Benson, founder and treasurer of the Kowaliga School, of which Emily Howland was a trustee. Asks if Howland would be willing to defer the full repayment of a loan she made to the school; the year's poor crop yield had prevented Benson from raising as much money locally as he had hoped to. Discusses progress setting up the school.
Date:
1898-03-02
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Alice Lewisohn Crowley
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Alice Lewisohn Crowley
Description:
Written to Alice Lewisohn Crowley, an actress who, like Howland, served as a trustee of the Kowaliga school. Responds to Lewisohn's letter (A00186310) about George Barnes, a teacher at the school who claimed he had not been paid in full. Praises the Kowaliga School.
Date:
1915-09
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Thomas Jesse Jones letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Thomas Jesse Jones letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Thomas Jesse Jones, an advocate for African American education. Discusses the finances of the Kowaliga School, of which Howland was a trustee. Criticizes William Benson's position as executive of both the Kowaliga School and the Dixie Industrial Company.
Date:
1914-07-30
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
William E. Benson letter
Title:
William E. Benson letter
Description:
Written by African American educator and businessman William E. Benson, founder of the Kowaliga School; addressed to the school's trustees. Discusses Benson's recent severe pneumonia and requests a year of paid leave during which he might recover. Includes a resolution of the "local trustees" (as opposed to those in the North) granting Benson this leave.
Date:
1915-10-02
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
William E. Benson letter to Emily Howland
Title:
William E. Benson letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by African American businessman and educator William E. Benson. Discusses a recent clash with banker Clarence H. Kelsey over the management of Benson's Kowaliga School, of which Howland was a trustee. Disputes Kelsey's account of events (for which see A00186307) and gives his own version.
Date:
1915-05-04
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Clarence H. Kelsey letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Clarence H. Kelsey letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Clarence H. Kelsey, a leading New York City banker who, like Howland, was a trustee of the Kowaliga School. Discusses a recent meeting of the trustees held by William E. Benson which Kelsey believed had been organized illegally.
Date:
1915-04-20
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Clarence H. Kelsey letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Clarence H. Kelsey letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Clarence H. Kelsey, a leading New York City banker who, like Howland, was a trustee of the Kowaliga School. Discusses the reopening of the school in the wake of the death of its founder and principal William E. Benson, an African American educator and entrepreneur with whom Kelsey had had disagreements.
Date:
1915-11-01
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
John Brooks Leavitt letter to William E. Benson
Title:
John Brooks Leavitt letter to William E. Benson
Description:
Written by New York City attorney and reformer John Brooks Leavitt to African American educator and businessman William E. Benson. Discusses a dispute between Benson and Clarence H. Kelsey over the management of the Dixie Industrial Company, in which Leavitt held stock. Also includes Leavitt's legal opinion of an agreement between the Dixie Industrial Company and the Kowaliga School, of which Benson was president.
Date:
1915-03-19
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
George W. Barnes and Clarence H. Kelsey letters to Alice Lewisohn Crowley
Title:
George W. Barnes and Clarence H. Kelsey letters to Alice Lewisohn Crowley
Description:
Letters from George W. Barnes, a teacher at the Kowaliga School, and Clarence H. Kelsey, a New York banker and trustee of the school; both to Alice Lewisohn (later Crowley), an actress and trustee of the school. Barnes’s letter asserts that Barnes had not been paid and asks for his wages. Kelsey’s letter discusses Barnes's situation, the school’s finances, and the behavior of its founder William E. Benson, with whom Kelsey had feuded that spring. Crowley sent both letters to trustee Emily Howland enclosed in A00186273.
Date:
1915-09-27
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Alexander Meadows letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Alexander Meadows letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Discusses meetings of the board of the Kowaliga School, of which Howland and Meadows were both trustees. Expresses support for Clarence H. Kelsey's plan for the school.
Date:
1915-11-10
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Alice L. White letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Alice L. White letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Alice L. White was the founder and principal of the Montgomery Industrial School. Discusses the Hale Infirmary and the future of the Kowaliga School after the death of its founder William E. Benson, an African American educator and entrepreneur.
Date:
1915-10-27
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Eliza R. Whiting letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Eliza R. Whiting letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Eliza R. Whiting and Emily Howland were both trustees of the Kowaliga School. Passes on news of the severe illness of William E. Benson, an African American businessman and founder of the school. Asks Howland how the trustees should respond to Benson's illness. Includes a photograph of a pair of buildings captioned "Where they are living."
Date:
1915-10-10
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Eliza R. Whiting letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Eliza R. Whiting letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Eliza R. Whiting and Emily Howland were both trustees of the Kowaliga School. Discusses New York banker Clarence H. Kelsey's claim that Whiting was made a trustee illegally. Remarks that, after the recent death of the school's founder William E. Benson, Kelsey planned to use the institution to "enrich the greedy." Discusses Benson and the future of the Kowaliga School without him.
Date:
1915-10-31
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Alice Lewisohn Crowley letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Alice Lewisohn Crowley letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Alice Lewisohn (later Crowley), an actress who, like Howland, served as a trustee of the Kowaliga School. Asks Howland's thoughts on the recent request of school founder William E. Benson for a year of paid sick leave.
Date:
1915-10-06
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Alice Lewisohn Crowley letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Alice Lewisohn Crowley letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Alice Lewisohn (later Crowley), an actress who, like Howland, served as a trustee of the Kowaliga School. Discusses the request of school founder William E. Benson for a year of paid sick leave.
Date:
1915-10-09
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Alice Lewisohn Crowley letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Alice Lewisohn Crowley letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Alice Lewisohn (later Crowley), an actress who, like Howland, served as a trustee of the Kowaliga School. Asks Howland to meet with Lewisohn and New York banker Clarence H. Kelsey (another trustee) to discuss the school's future in light of the recent death of its founder William E. Benson.
Date:
1915-10-19
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
John M. Chilton letter to Emily Howland
Title:
John M. Chilton letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Discusses the Kowaliga School in light of the recent death of its founder William E. Benson; asks Howland to notify Chilton of any meetings of the school's trustees.
Date:
1915-10-12
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Alexander Meadows letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Alexander Meadows letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Asks Howland for confirmation that the trustees of the Kowaliga School had selected John M. Chilton as the school's lawyer.
Date:
1915-10-27
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Clarence H. Kelsey letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Clarence H. Kelsey letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Clarence H. Kelsey, a leading New York City banker who, like Howland, was a trustee of the Kowaliga School. Discusses arrangements for a meeting of the trustees.
Date:
1915-11-16
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Clarence H. Kelsey letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Clarence H. Kelsey letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Clarence H. Kelsey, a leading New York City banker who, like Howland, was a trustee of the Kowaliga School. Discusses arrangements for a meeting of the trustees.
Date:
1915-11-12
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College

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