| Harriet O'Neal | |
|---|---|
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Full name |
Julia Harriet O'Neal |
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Alternative names |
Harriet O'Neal, Harriet Oneal, J.H. O'Neal, Julia H. O'Neal, Hattie J. Oneil, Hattie O'Neal, J. Hattie O'Neal |
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Presence at Shimer |
–1864 |
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Presence on Earth |
1836–1927 |
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Role(s) |
Seminary period alum |
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Location(s) |
Mount Carroll, IL |
Harriet O'Neal was a student at Shimer College in the Seminary period, graduating in 1864. Issues of the Frances Shimer Quarterly show her as living in Corning, CA around 1909-1910.[1]
O'Neal was the son of local farmer and innkeeper John O'Neal.[2]
O'Neal worked throughout her life as an educator and administrator. She was already teaching in 1860, probably at the Preston Prairie School. [3][[4]
Shimer connections[]
- Probable sister of probable alum James C. O'Neal
Mentioned[]
- in "Personals", Oread, July 1880, pp. 6-7:
- Miss H.O. Knowlton has been writing hymns for a new Sabbath school book of song published by Scribner & Co. One of her hymns was sung by thousands of children and teachers at the Robert Raikes celebration in Brooklyn.
- Miss Knowlton spends most of the summer with her father and mother in Elba, Iowa.
- in "Scattered Family", Oread, August 1891, p. 26:
- Miss J. Hattie O'Neal has continued as principal of the Leaf River public school during the past year. Of her former Seminary friends she writes: "I am unable to give you any recent knowledge, but hope for them the best of life's sunshine, the least of its shadows, and to those of this number who may share in the Reunion I wish you would extend my best wishes; of myself I can only say, I am busy in my chosen field—the school—enjoying it more each year, and finding more to do and indulging in the hope that there may be well-ripened wheat in the sheaves I bring to the final garner."
- in "In the Long Ago", Thomas H. Fraser, n.d., retrieved 2012-01-12:
- Col. J. M. Thomson was principal of the school at this time, with Miss Mary Hathaway of Savanna and Miss Marsh of Freeport as his assistants in the "Fifth Room." The teachers remembered as presiding over some of the lower departments were Miss Hattie O'Neal, Miss Louise Bartholemew,and Miss Lillian Seymour.
- in "Log Cabin Days", Ellen Eliza Preston Downing, a. 1920, retrieved 2012-01-12:
- Hattie J O’Neal was employed almost constantly for several years and afterward in the schools of Mt. Carroll, Lanark, Savanna, Thomson and Leaf River.
- in "Welcome to the O'Neal Inn Stage Coach Stop", Alice Horner, retrieved 2012-01-12:
- After John O’Neal and his wife died, the property was owned by his daughter, Harriet. The 1893 Carroll County Plat Book shows her as Julia H. O’Neal, owning 125 acres.
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