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The Manumit School was a progressive Christian socialist boarding school located in Pawling, New York, between 1924 and 1943, and from 1944 to 1958 in Bristol, Pennsylvania. [1] Founded on purchased farm land by Rev. William Fincke and his wife Helen, it was formerly called The Manumit School for Workers' Children.
Manumit School was a Christian socialist co-educational, elementary, non-denominational, boarding school in Pawling, NY, 1924-1943, then in Bristol, PA, 1944-1958. In 1924, Rev. William Mann Fincke and his wife, Helen Hamlin, founded Manumit as an elementary level, co-educational, boarding school on a working farm in Pawling, NY.
He attended Manumit School, a Christian socialist boarding school in Pawling, New York, during the late 1930s, and Peekskill Military Academy in Peekskill, New York. He later attended St. Leo College Preparatory School , a Catholic school in St. Leo, Florida, after being expelled from several other schools for bad behavior (smoking cigarettes ...
Manumit School was a Christian socialist co-educational, elementary, non-denominational, boarding school in Pawling, NY, 1924-1943, then in Bristol, PA, 1944-1958. In 1924, Rev. William Mann Fincke and his wife, Helen Hamlin, founded Manumit as an elementary level, co-educational, boarding school on a working farm in Pawling, NY.
On the farm, he and his wife established the Manumit School, a co-educational boarding school referred to as a "laborers' peace school for young children." [2] Manumit was also described as "an alliance of progressive labor and progressive education " and was associated with a number of New York City labor unions.
There is significant amount of correspondence in the collection, including letters to Benjamin and Magda Fincke; a chronology and several histories of Manumit; a CD containing material from the website "Manumit School" devoted to its history, and selected email exchanges from 2005-2009 between alumni; also included are copies of some materials from the New York Public Library.
Manumit School was a Christian socialist school in Pawling, NY, 1924-1943, then in Bristol, PA, 1944-1958. The collection is an assembled collection containing printed ephemera, correspondence, writings of the School's director (1933-1958), William Mann Fincke, who was a son of the co-founders, Reverend William Mann Fincke (d. 1927) and Helen Harden Fincke; a CD containing material from the ...
