Laura Carter Holloway Langford (August 22, 1843 – July 10, 1930) was an American journalist, author, and lecturer from

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. She worked as a reporter and editor for the ''

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'' and published several books, notably ''The Ladies of the White House'' (1870), a group biography of the

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that became a bestseller with 150,000 copies sold worldwide. A

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, and

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who joined the

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in the 1870s and held an array of radical and alternative beliefs, Holloway was a lifelong friend of

Anna White Anna White (21 Jan. 1831 – 16 Dec. 1910) was a Shaker Eldress, social reformer, author, and hymn writer. Biography Anna White born in Brooklyn, New York, the third daughter of five children of Robert White and Hannah (Gibbs) White. Her parent ...

of the

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. Holloway's papers are held in the

Edward Deming Andrews Edward Deming Andrews (March 6, 1894 – June 6, 1964) was an American historian, educator, curator, and preeminent authority on the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, or the Shakers. Life and career Born into a working-c ...

Shaker Memorial Collection at the Winterthur Library.

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