Historical Obituary: Laura M. Towne

Laura Towne

Historical Obituary: Laura M. Towne

03/09/1901

Historical Obituary

Google News features an obituary published in the Boston Evening Transcript on March 9, 1901, written by Annie Fields, after the death of the Laura Matilde Towne- a White abolitionist, missionary, educator, and physician from the North. The obituary includes: an account of Fields' visit with Towne in the late 1880s, details of Towne's arrival on St. Helena Island in Beaufort, South Carolina, Towne's efforts to improve the water supply on the island, the building of a schoolhouse for African American students, and her appointment as supervisor of seventeen additional schools. Fields also notes Towne's study of medicine, practice of law, and philanthropic endeavors.

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Google News (Original Publisher: Boston Evening Transcript, MA)

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