Mary Gertrude Smallsbeck
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- Mary Gertrude Smallsbeck
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Mary Gertrude Smallsbeck was a teacher at the Fairview School according to a March 9, 1894 article in the Aegis an Intellinger newspaper.[1] The article also mentions that Smallsbeck was the secretary of the “Fairview Tuesday Night Club.” While there were no definitive vital or census records for Smallsbeck, of the two that appeared, one was from the 1860 census and one from the Maryland Births and Christenings, 1650-1995 suggest that Mary Smallsbeck or her parents were born in Guyana.[2] Both records also mention that Mary Smallsbeck’s race was white. This would have made her one or perhaps the only white teacher of a Freedmen’s Bureau school in Harford County during the 19th century.
- [1] The Aegis and Intelliger, Bel Air, MD, March 9, 1894, page 3.
- [2] Search Results, "Mary Smallsbeck, Harford, MD, 1870," FamilySearch.
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- Fairview
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