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Jacob E. Yoder Diaries, 1861-1870

Diaries, 1861-1870, of Jacob E. Yoder (1838-1905) of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and Lynchburg, Virginia, consisting of: a) diary, 25 January-25 February 1864, detailing Yoder's teaching in a school in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, describing the performance of his students; recording the weather; commenting on his personal and religious life; also containing notes on lectures on teaching taken in 1861, accounts, 1862- 1864, class lists and grades of students, and miscellaneous notes; b) diary, 1866-1867, recording his experiences teaching in a Freedmen's Bureau School for African Americans in Lynchburg, Virginia, commenting on the sentiments of the local white population on the end of the Civil War and Union occupation, and his personal experiences while teaching; and c) diary, 1869-1870, continuing his experiences as a teacher for the Freedmen's Bureau, recounting trips he made as school superintendent to various African American schools in central Virginia, and commenting on his personal experiences in Lynchburg, also containing a list of names and copies of receipts for money given to Alex Wharton of Lynchburg. The diaries for 1866-1870 were published as THE FIRE OF LIBERTY IN THEIR HEARTS: THE DIARY OF JACOB E. YODER OF THE FREEDMEN'S BUREAU SCHOOL, LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA, 1866-1870.

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