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The Ladies Benevolent Society provided an estimated 10% of charity proceeds in Charleston at the time. With the rise of other charitable groups such as the Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Mercy and the Methodist Benevolent Society during the mid-19th century, the Ladies Benevolent Society’s workload diminished. [1]
1813 – Literary and Philosophical Society of South Carolina founded. [15] Ladies Benevolent Society founded. 1815 – Religious Tract Society of Charleston organized. 1816 – Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church founded. 1819 Charleston Mercury newspaper begins publication. New England Society of Charleston organized. [25]
Charleston Reborn: A Southern City, Its Navy Yard, and World War II. Charleston, SC: The History Press. ISBN 978-1540203618. Hart, Emma (2015). Building Charleston: Town and Society in the Eighteenth Century British Atlantic World (Reprint ed.). Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1611176582.
Pages in category "19th-century in Charleston, South Carolina" ... Ladies Benevolent Society (Charleston) N. New Charleston Theatre; O. Old Slave Mart; P. First ...
Anna DeCosta Banks (September 2, 1869 – November 29, 1930) was an American nurse, and the first head nurse at the Hospital and Training School for Nurses in Charleston, South Carolina. Banks is known for her nursing career, as well as a later position as superintendent for 32 years at the same training school for nurses.
Sarah Visanska graduated from the Charleston Female Seminary in 1889. She was president of the South Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs from 1910-1912. [7] The writer, lecturer, and artist, Louise Hammond Willis Snead, was a student at Charleston Female Seminary, and also had charge of the painting and drawing classes. [8]
Sarah Moore Grimké (November 26, 1792 – December 23, 1873) was an American abolitionist, widely held to be the mother of the women's suffrage movement. [1]: xxi Born and reared in South Carolina to a prominent and wealthy planter family, she moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the 1820s and became a Quaker, as did her younger sister Angelina.
William Gibbes House, Charleston County (64 S. Battery, Charleston), at South Carolina Department of Archives and History Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. SC-445, "Gibbes House, 64 South Battery Street, Charleston, Charleston County, SC", 53 photos, 5 photo caption pages, supplemental material