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josephine shaw lowell
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- Philanthropist, social reformer, and a leader of the American scientific charity movement, Josephine Shaw was born into a wealthy and prominent abolitionist Boston family that in the 1850s resettled in Staten Island, New York. During the Civil War, the teenaged Josephine volunteered her services to the U.S. Sanitary Commission. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America; Lowell, Josephine Shaw (1843–1905)]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/josephine_shaw_lowell
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