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Ayer, Frederick

 Person

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Frederick Ayer records

 Collection — Box 8-9
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0015
Scope and contents This series contains records which represent the work of Frederick Ayer as local superintendent and financial agent appointed by the American Missionary Association to establish schools for the freedmen in Atlanta. The correspondence includes Ayer's description of the condition of the newly freed slaves upon his arrival in Atlanta, letters to E.M. Cravath, secretary of the Middle West Department of the American Missionary Association and later president of Fisk University. The financial...
Dates: 1865-1867, 1900