Women’s Prison Association and Home

American organization

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In Abigail Hopper Gibbons
…its reorganization as the independent Women’s Prison Association and Home in 1853. In 1859 she became president of the German Industrial School. She was also a frequent visitor to the New York City children’s asylum on Randall’s Island. For nearly four years during the American Civil War, she worked as…
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