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] Two branches of the Hallowell family exist, both originating in England. The cities of Hallowell, Maine and Hallowell, Ontario, as well as Boylston Street in Boston were named for members of the Boston Branch.[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 of the Philadelphia branch

Morris Longstreth Hallowell (1809-1880) was born in Pennsylvania where he inherited and successfully ran a China import trade business. In 1831 he married Hannah Smith Penrose.[8] 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.[9]

Benjamin Hallowell (educator)

May Hallowell Loud: Artist, suffragist and great granddaughter of Lucretia Mott.

Sarah Tyson Hallowell

Sarah Catherine Fraley Hallowell

Sarah Tyson Hallowell: An American art curator, quaker, and granddaughter of colonial millionaire and abolitionist Elisha Tyson.[10]

Harriet Hallowell

Edwin Hallowell

Norwood Penrose Hallowell: A colonel in the 54th Massachusetts regiment. He famously left the Somerset Club, upon noticing that the curtains were closed during the 54th's victory march.[11] In the Civil War Film, Glory (1989 film), Norwood Penrose Hallowell was recreated as the fictional character, Major Cabot-Forbes, portrayed by actor Cary Elwes.[12][13]

Edward Needles Hallowell: An officer in the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment. The children of Edward Needles Hallowell and Richard Price Hallowell contributed time and money towards African American advancement societies, including the NAACP, of which many were founding members.[14]

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.[15][16]

John Hallowell

Notable members of the Boston/New England branch

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.[17]

Ward Nicholas Boylston: a merchant and benefactor of Harvard, he was a first cousin to Susanna Boylston, the mother of the 2nd President of the United States, John Adams, and grandmother of the 6th President, John Quincy Adams. The Boylston Street in Boston, and Jamaica Plane are named for him as is the town of Boylston, Massachusetts.[18][19]

Robert Hallowell Gardiner

Robert Hallowell Richards

Robert Hallowell Gardiner III

References
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  2. A Record of the Streets, Alleys, Places, Etc. in the City of Boston. City of Boston Printing Department. 1910.
  3. Column, Lydia Doskocil Guest. "The history behind Boylston's name". telegram.com. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  4. 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.
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  6. "Integration: What Happens to the Kids". Time. 1963-08-16. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  7. Association, Grant Family (1899). Report of the ... Reunion of the Grant Family Association ... 1st-8th.
  8. Leach, Josiah Granville (1903). History of the Penrose Family of Philadelphia. private circulation.
  9. Leach, Josiah Granville (1903). History of the Penrose Family of Philadelphia. private circulation.
  10. 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.
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  14. 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.
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  16. 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.
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  19. A Record of the Streets, Alleys, Places, Etc. in the City of Boston. City of Boston Printing Department. 1910.


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