An uncommon woman, the life of Lydia Hamilton Smith, Mark Kelley
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- Housekeepers -- Pennsylvania -- Lancaster -- Biography
- Biographies
- Pennsylvania + Lancaster
- Businesswomen
- Noires américaines -- Pennsylvanie -- Lancaster -- Biographies
- African American businesspeople
- History
- African American women
- Lancaster (Pa.) -- History -- 19th century
- Gens d'affaires noirs américains -- Pennsylvanie -- Lancaster -- Biographies
- 1800-1899
- African American women -- Pennsylvania -- Lancaster -- Biography
- African American businesspeople -- Pennsylvania -- Lancaster -- Biography
- Stevens, Thaddeus, 1792-1868
- Housekeepers
- Businesswomen -- Pennsylvania -- Lancaster -- Biography
- Smith, Lydia Hamilton, 1813-1884
- Lancaster (Pa.) -- Biography
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An uncommon woman, the life of Lydia Hamilton Smith, Mark Kelley
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-259) and index
resource.biographical
individual biography
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
An uncommon woman
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1372132449
Responsibility statement
Mark Kelley
Sub title
the life of Lydia Hamilton Smith
Summary
"A biography of Lydia Hamilton Smith (1813-1884), a prominent African American businesswoman in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and the longtime housekeeper and life companion of the state's abolitionist congressman Thaddeus Stevens"--, Provided by publisher
Table of contents
James Buchanan's father slept here -- A girlhood in Gettysburg -- Coming of age -- Another name change -- Much more than a housekeeper -- Everyone's on the move -- The widow and the congressman -- Booze, politics, and the Underground Railroad -- Life, death, and marriage -- The war years -- "In health or in sickness" -- The battles after the war -- A companion lost -- "It was Mr. Dickey" -- Mrs. Smith goes to Washington -- Mrs. Smith versus the executors -- An elderly businesswoman -- "A noted woman gone" -- Those left behind -- A life well lived
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Life of Lydia Hamilton Smith
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