of Ed._, 1871, p.

203.] Equally helpful was the work of Arabella Jones.

Educated at the St.
Frances Academy at Baltimore, she was well grounded in the English branches and fluent in French.

She taught on the "Island," calling her school "The St.Agnes Academy."[1] Another worker of this class was Mary Wormley, once a student in the Colored Female Seminary of Philadelphia under Sarah Douglass.

This lady began teaching about 1830, getting some assistance from Mr.Calvert, an Englishman.[2] The institution passed later into the hands of Thomas Lee, during the incumbency of whom the school was closed by the "Snow Riot." This was an attempt on the part of the white people to get rid of the progressive Negroes of the District of Columbia.