This institution was organized by the benevolent Father Walter at the Smothers School.

Then there were teachers like Elizabeth Smith, Isabella Briscoe, Charlotte Beams, James Shorter, Charlotte Gordon, and David Brown.

Furthermore, various churches, parochial, and Sunday-schools were then sharing the burden of educating the Negro population of the District of Columbia.

See _Special Report of the U.S.Com.

of Ed._, 1871, pp.