Extracts from Letters of Teachers and Superintendents of the New-England Educational Commission for Freedmen/List of Teachers and Superintendents
The Commission was organized in Boston, February 7th, 1862. Since that date it has sent 114 Teachers and Superintendents to the South. Their names are printed below. Of these 97 went to Port Royal, 11 to Newbern, N.C., 3 to Craney Island and Norfolk, Va., and one each to Washington, Georgetown and Alexandria, D.C. Of the whole, 72 still remain, employed chiefly as Superintendents of Plantations or as Teachers. Their names are printed in Italics. The names of those who have died are marked with an asterisk.
To Port Royal.—Edward W. Hooper, Boston; Edward S. Philbrick, Brookline; Wm. C. Gannett, Boston; Geo. H. Blake, Bangor; J.C. Zachos, Ohio; Dr. A.J. Wakefield, J.F. Sisson, I.W. Cole, Boston; W.R. Hill; Jas. H. Palmer, Deerfield: D.F. Thorpe, Providence; David Mack, Cambridge; T. Edwin Ruggles, Milton; J.M.F. Howard, Boston; F.E. Barnard,* Dorchester; Dr. James Waldock, Roxbury; Richard Soule jr., Brookline; Leonard Wesson, Brookline; Wm. Ed. Park, Andover; J.E. Taylor, Andover; Dr. Charles H. Browne, Boston; F.A. Eustis, Milton; Sam'l D. Phillips,* Boston; Rev. Daniel Bowe,* Andover; Wm. S. Clark,* Boston; Mrs. E.B. Hale, Miss M. Hale, Boston; Miss M.A. Waldock, Roxbury; Miss Ellen H. Winsor, Boston; Jules S. DeLacroix, Newburyport; Geo. M. Welles, Providence; Rev. Thos. D. Howard, Springfield; Rev. Chas. E. Rich, Geo. H. Boynton, Boston; Rev. S. Peck, Roxbury; Dr. F.W. Lawrence, Boston; Dr. F.E. Bundy, Boston; Moses Wright; Rev. John Orrell, Sandwich; Arthur Sumner, Cambridge; Richard S. Edes, Providence; O.E. Bryant, Bridgewater; Geo. H. Hull, Chelsea; D.B. Nichols; Geo. H. Duran; Geo. Daniels; E. Horn; Mrs. H.W. Philbrick, Brookline; Miss H.H. Ware, Milton; Rev. J. Horton; J.S. Severance, Concord; R.W. Allen, Hartford; John G. Nichols, Kingston; Chas. P. Ware, Milton; Chas. Follen, Boston; F.J. Williams, Brookline ; Chas. C. Soule, Brookline; Charles Follen Folsom, Jamaica Plain; H.L. Breed; J.R. Dennett, Reading; W.N. Murdock, Boston; E.P.Dyer, Hingham; Miss Eliza Ruggles,* Milton; Rev. A. D. Milne, Tiverton, R.I.; Chs. P. Kemp, Boston; Mrs. E. Clark, Boston; Rev. W. W. Hall, Providence; E.G. Dudley, Boston; A.B. Brown, Boston; W.T G. Pierce,* Melrose; John H. Goodhue;* Jas. G. Cole; A.B. Plimpton, Melrose; J.N. Trask, Cambridge; N.C. Dennett, Worcester; Benj. A. Lincoln,* Boston; Miss Rice, Cambridge; Mrs. H. Bartlett; Miss H. Carter, Cambridge; Miss S.E. Richardson, Providence; Edward G. Stetson, Lexington; Gilbert Pillsbury, Ludlow; John H. Pillsbury, Boston; Theodore E. Davis, Fitchburg; J.G. Dodge, Winchester; Wm. H. Alden, Hartford; C.C. Waters, Salem; Geo. S. Morison, Milton; Chs. C. Drew, Boston; Mrs. C.H. Browne, Boston; C. Edward Dyer, Dorchester; Wm. G.S. Keene, Lynn; Mrs. C.M. Severance; Miss Ellen M. Lee, Templeton; Miss Helen M. Ireson, Lynn; Mrs. A.F. Pillsbury; Mrs. J.G. Dodge.
To Craney Island and Norfolk.—Miss Lucy Chase, Miss Sarah E. Chase, Worcester; Miss Martha H. Chace, Providence.
To Newbern, N.C.—Mr. O.E. Doolittle, Boston; Miss B.L. Canedy, Fall River; Miss Alice S. Ropes, Boston; Miss Teresa O. James, Roxbury; Miss S.M. Pearson; Mrs. C.E. Croome; Miss Esther Warren, Exeter, N.H.; Mr. Wm. V. West, Nantucket; Miss Anna C. Canedy, Fall River; Miss Anna P. Merriam, Worcester; Miss L.N. Tuttle.
To Washington, D.C.—Miss C.A. Andrews, Newburyport.
To Georgetown, D.C.—Miss Frances W. Perkins.
To Alexandria, D.C.—Miss Virginia A. Lawton.
Rev. Thomas D. Howard, having returned from Port Royal, has been sent as agent of the Commission to examine and report upon the condition and wants of the Freedmen at New Orleans and the vicinity.