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- On January 25, 1864, he married Sarah Baker Leonard of Stafford, Connecticut. She later joined him in his work, helping teach freedwomen as he taught the men. They had two children, Elizabeth Caroline and Edward Leonard Tupper.
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During the early years of Shaw, founder Henry Martin Tupper’s wife, Sarah, was perhaps just as significant. Sarah Leonard Tupper started hosting Bible study classes for newly freed African-American women in the Tuppers’ own home when they first arrived in Raleigh.
After the Civil War, Tupper was commissioned by the Home Mission Society to act as a missionary to freed slaves in the American South. Discharged from the Union Army on July 14, 1865, he and his wife Sarah departed for Raleigh, North Carolina, on October 1 to begin his work.
Henry Martin Tupper, an ex-Union Army Chaplain of Monson, Massachusetts and his wife, Sarah B. Turner Tupper, arrived in Raleigh in October of 1865, resolved to provide educational opportunities for former slaves. In December 1865, Tupper gathered six ex-slaves in his first theology class. Ten years later Shaw University was chartered.
Dec 1, 2009 · In March of 1866, his wife began teaching classes to African American women in the Tupper’s home. Tupper quickly realized the need for education beyond theology courses, and set out to found what would eventually become Shaw University, the first black college in the South.
On October 10, 1865 Dr. Henry Martin Tupper and his wife “arrived in the city of Raleigh, North Carolina with the express purpose of laboring as missionaries on behalf of the colored people.”. In February of 1866, Second Baptist Church was organized and land was deeded “beginning at the corner of Blount and Cabarrus Streets running south ...
Henry Martin Tupper founded the university, originally named Raleigh Theological Institute, in Raleigh, North Carolina. A former Union soldier, Tupper went south with his wife in 1865 as a missionary of the American Baptist Home Mission Society of New York.
Sep 24, 2019 · However, nearly a decade before the construction of Estey Hall on Shaw University's campus, Sarah Tupper (wife of Shaw University's founder, Henry Martin Tupper) began teaching classes to freed women at the Guion Hotel, alongside her husband's classes for the men.
