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Icabod Flewellen
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A meticulously researched biography of Icabod Flewellen, this story provides a glimpse of what it means to be a black man in America during the second half of the century and a pioneer and early founder of the African American museum movement. A must read for anyone interested in African American history and the Black Museum Movement.
-John E. Fleming, PhD, Director in Residence,
National Museum of African American Music, Nashville
A meticulously researched biography of Icabod Flewellen, this story provides a glimpse of what it means to be a black man in America during the second half of the century and a pioneer and early founder of the African American museum movement. A must read for anyone interested in African American history and the Black Museum Movement.
-John E. Fleming, PhD, Director in Residence,
National Museum of African American Music, Nashville
A Special Place
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A Must Read. This history of St. Mary’s School of Nursing is a treasure, which gives
the reader a look at the early beginnings and success of the school opened by the Sisters of St. Joseph in 1905. It includes stories of students and their accomplishments and interviews of graduates—relating the impact of the school on their personal and professional lives. The author, also a graduate, has firsthand knowledge of life as a nursing student. Though research she gained knowledge of programs and events provided for the 690 students over the 64 years of the school’s existence.
—Mary Palmer, CSJ
Barbara W. Flewellyn, a retired nurse whose second career is that of a genealogical researcher and author of family and town histories and memoirs. Her articles have appeared in the Ohio Genealogy News and newsletters for genealogy organizations. A prolific public speaker, her most recent presentations were about the works of Icabod Flewellen at the annual conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) in Charleston, South Carolina and at ASALH’s local chapter in Orlando, Florida. Other books by Flewellyn includes The Howards and the Hughes of Marengo County Alabama & Escambia County Florida, The Searcys and the Flewellens of Monroe & Bibb Counties, Georgia, and The African American Community of Carolina, Marion County West Virginia. Another book scheduled for release in Fall 2020 is A Special Place~St. Mary’s Hospital School of Nursing, Clarksburg, West Virginia, 1905-1969. Flewellyn received a BSN from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, a MSN from Kent State University, Kent, Ohio and a MBA from Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio.
