An uncommon woman : the life of Lydia Hamilton Smith / Mark Kelley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelley, Mark, 1949- author.

Series:

Keystone Bks.

LancasterHistory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--Pennsylvania--Lancaster--Biography.

African American women.

African American businesspeople--Pennsylvania--Lancaster--Biography.

African American businesspeople.

Businesswomen--Pennsylvania--Lancaster--Biography.

Businesswomen.

Housekeepers--Pennsylvania--Lancaster--Biography.

Housekeepers.

Lancaster (Pa.)--Biography.

Lancaster (Pa.).

Lancaster (Pa.)--History--19th century.

Smith, Lydia Hamilton, 1813-1884.

Smith, Lydia Hamilton.

Stevens, Thaddeus, 1792-1868.

Stevens, Thaddeus.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

University Park, PA : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2023]

Summary:

A biography of Lydia Hamilton Smith (1813-1884), a prominent African American businesswoman in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and the longtime housekeeper and life companion of the state's abolitionist congressman Thaddeus Stevens.

Contents:

James Buchanan's father slept here

A girlhood in Gettysburg

Coming of age

Another name change

Much more than a housekeeper

Everyone's on the move

The widow and the congressman

Booze, politics, and the Underground Railroad

Life, death, and marriage

The war years

"In health or in sickness"

The battles after the war

A companion lost

"It was Mr. Dickey"

Mrs. Smith goes to Washington

Mrs. Smith versus the executors

An elderly businesswoman

"A noted woman gone"

Those left behind

A life well lived.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780271098739

0271098732

OCLC:

1416100938