Mary Virginia Brown (Mrs. Elijah Lewis) Connally organizational papers

Collection

Identifier: 0000-0140M

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

These are papers from organizations of which Mary B. Connally was treasurer: the Industrial Educational Loan Association, Fulton County, Georgia, and the Grady Hospital Aid Association. Correspondence includes letters from some of the girls, particularly Rosa B. Holmes, who received loans to attend the Georgia Normal and Industrial College in Milledgeville.

Dates

1892 - 1906
Majority of material found in 1892 - 1899

Creator

Connally, Mary Virginia Brown (Mrs. Elijah Lewis), 1850 - 1927 (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Mrs. Connally was the daughter of Elizabeth Grisham and Georgia Governor Joseph E. Brown and lived with her husband for many years at 53 Ashby Street in the then-fashionable West End of Atlanta. Grady Hospital doctors and personnel requested wealthy women like Mrs. Connally to start the Grady Hospital Aid Association, a voluntary, charitable organization. She also served on the board of the Industrial Educational Loan Association in Fulton County, founded to help poor white women attend college in Milledgeville.

Extent

.25 Cubic Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

Arranged by organization or person who created the record, therein chronologically.

Other Finding Aids

Unpublished inventory available.

Related Materials

Related collections in this repository: Brown/Connally/Anderson Family Papers (1976-0164M); Brown/Connally/Spalding Family Papers (0000-076M); and the Grady Hospital Auxiliary Records (0000-0125M).