Silas Curtis
- Identifier:
- 027483
- Title:
- Silas Curtis
- Date:
- undated
- Description:
- A member and administrator of the Freewill Baptist congregation in New England, Curtis was one the founders of several mission schools established in the Shenandoah Valley to educated freed slaves and their children after the Civil War. Curtis was also instrumental in the founding of Storer College in Harpers Ferry.
- Subjects:
- Portraits--C.
- Personal Names:
- Curtis, Silas.
- Corporate Names:
- Free Will Baptist Church (New Durham, N.H.), Storer College.
- Acquisition Method:
- Acquired
- Medium:
- print
- Projects:
- West Virginia History OnView
