Richard Price Hallowell
Richard Price Hallowell (December 16, 1835 – January 5, 1904) was an American businessman, abolitionist, and Quaker.
Early life
Richard Price Hallowell was born into a family of Quaker abolitionists. His parents' home was used on several occasions as a stop on the Underground Railroad.[1][2]
He attended Haverford College in the early 1850s before leaving school to work as a merchant. In 1857 he left Philadelphia and moved to Massachusetts, as part of "a personal stand against slavery because his firm dealt in products (cotton) coming from slave labor".[3]
Career
He became a successful wool broker and banker with offices in Boston, and a home in West Medford. He eventually became a director of the National Bank of Commerce, a trustee, auditor, and later a Vice President of the Medford Savings Bank.[4][5] He was elected President of the Medford Savings Bank in April 1899, maintaining that position until his death in 1904.[6] Unlike his brothers Edward and Norwood who served in the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, Hallowell was unable to do so on account of ill health.[7] Instead, Massachusetts Governor John Albion Andrew appointed him as a special agent in the recruitment of White and African American soldiers.[8]
Richard 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.[9]
He was also a staunch supporter of Women's Suffrage and religious tolerance. He served as Vice President of the Women's Suffrage Association, and was a founding member and treasurer of the Free Religious Association. The FRA was described as a "spiritual anti-slavery society" seeking to "emancipate religion from...dogmatic traditions". It was opposed to "organized religion and super-naturalism, [and] affirmed the supremacy of individual conscience and reason." Quakers, Jews, Unitarians, Agnostics, Spiritualists, Deists and Scientific Theists were all to be in the FRA's ranks.[10]
In 1859, Hallowell travelled to Virginia to assist others in bringing John Brown's body northward for burial.[11][12]
Personal Life
Richard was the son of Morris Longstreth and Hannah Smith (Penrose) Hallowell.[13]
During the war, his family's summer home, referred to as the “House called Beautiful”, by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., became a "haven of rest and refreshment for wounded soldiers of the Union Army".[14] Refusing to sell his company's China imports to slave-owning Southerners, who constituted the majority of the business's patrons, Richard's father liquidated his company and went to work on the Board of Directors of the Port Royal Experiment.[15][16][17]
Richard died January 5th, 1904, and is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery.[18]
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- ↑ "Sports Heroes Who Served: Harvard Athlete, Ardent Abolitionist Became a Civil War Hero". U.S. Department of Defense. Retrieved 2022-06-21.
- ↑ Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography: Illustrated. Lewis Historical Publishing Company. 1921.
- ↑ Duncan, Russell (1999). Where Death and Glory Meet: Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Infantry. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-2135-6.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Leach, Josiah Granville (1903). History of the Penrose Family of Philadelphia. private circulation.
- ↑ Hallowell, R. P. (1883). Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company. [Web.] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://lccn.loc.gov/07032914.
- ↑ Harvard Alumni Bulletin. Harvard Bulletin, Incorporated. 1913.
- ↑ Pohanka, Brian C. (2001). "Where Death and Glory Meet: Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Infantry (review)". Civil War History. 47 (1): 82–83. doi:10.1353/cwh.2001.0014. ISSN 1533-6271.
- ↑ Galvin, John T. (1992). "The Hallowells: Fighting Quakers". Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society. 104: 42–54. ISSN 0076-4981.
- ↑ Galvin, John T. (1992). "The Hallowells: Fighting Quakers". Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society. 104: 42–54. ISSN 0076-4981.
- ↑ Duncan, Russell (1999). Where Death and Glory Meet: Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Infantry. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-2135-6.
- ↑ "Letter from R. P. Hallowell to W. E. B. Du Bois, March 23, 1903". credo.library.umass.edu.
- ↑ "Sports Heroes Who Served: Harvard Athlete, Ardent Abolitionist Became a Civil War Hero". U.S. Department of Defense. Retrieved 2022-06-21.
- ↑ Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography: Illustrated. Lewis Historical Publishing Company. 1921.
- ↑ Galvin, John T. (1992). "The Hallowells: Fighting Quakers". Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society. 104: 42–54. ISSN 0076-4981.
- ↑ Garrison, William Lloyd (1981). The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-52666-2.
- ↑ 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 2022-06-13.
- ↑ "Collection: Hallowell family papers | Archives & Manuscripts". archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-21.
