Tag: freedmen’s schools

• James Willis Patterson

  

  Drawn from a portrait in the reading room at Tucker Free Library (Henniker, NH): Patterson taught school in New Hampshire, and later served as a Republican member of Congress during the Civil War, where he supported the establishment of Freedmen’s Schools in the South. [Also see James W. Patterson on Wikipedia]

  Marek

  21 August, 2012

  Civil War, education, Freedmen, Henniker, NH people, NH places, politics

  civil war, congress, education, freedmen’s schools, Henniker, James WIllis Patterson, library