Hall likely worked six days a week, rain or shine, his horse may have worked seven if he hitched her up to his mail buggy and drove his wife and children from their home on Belmont Road to First United Methodist Church in Roxborough on Sunday mornings. Hall made his daily rounds, hoping he might stop his carriage in front of their house to deliver a letter or parcel to them. 4 Neighbors probably listened for the familiar clip-clop of horse’s hooves as Mr. postal service while his wife stayed home to raise their two daughters and three sons. Hall served in the military during the Civil War and later became a carrier for the U.S. Hall’s parents immigrated to the state from Maryland. Penrose Hall were native Pennsylvanians, though Mrs. There was only one Black family among the residents of Lower Merion Township in 1880, a married couple with five children. 1 Most were young, single men from Pennsylvania and its neighboring states - the youngest among them, a nine-year-old servant named George Taylor, was from New Jersey.
| Bryn Mawr College Special Collections, Bryn Mawr, PA.įive years before Bryn Mawr College opened its doors in 1885 to young women seeking the kind of rigorous academic training that was then available only at a few elite institutions for men, only fifteen Black people resided in Lower Merion Township.
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