Helen Pitts 1859

[Studio portrait]
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National Park Service

Helen Pitts 1859 (Mrs. Frederick Douglass)
teacher 1863-1864 freedmen Norfolk VA
Married 1883; husband was a negro orator, journalist, United States Minister to Haiti, died 1895
died 1903 in Anacostia, Washington DC

Source
All information from One Hundred Year Biographical Directory of Mount Holyoke College 1837-1937, Bulletin Series 30, no. 5; published and compiled by the Alumnae Association of Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts