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Isaac A. Givens (born roughly 1845) was a carpenter, prominent member of Aiken's black community, and one of the first trustees of the Schofield Normal and Industrial School. His speech, delivered at the opening of a new school building, encourages the students to follow in Martha Schofield's footsteps, so that when she is dead the morals she has taught them may be as lasting a monument to her as the newly erected building. The third page contains text in pencil about the ceremony that very closely resembles Katherine Smedley's description of it in her biography of Martha Schofield.