Editing Emily Howland (section)

==Early life and education==
Emily Howland was born at [[Sherwood, New York|Sherwood]] in [[Cayuga County, New York]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|date=October 1929|title=Obituaries|jstor=43565516|journal=The Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association|volume=10|issue=4|pages=346–348}}</ref> on November 20, 1827.<ref name=":0" /> She was the daughter of Slocum and Hannah Tallcot Howland, who were prominent in the [[Quakers|Society of Friends]].<ref name=":0" /> Her brother, William Howland, served in the [[106th New York State Legislature]].<ref name=":1" /> She was educated in small private schools in the community, and the Margaret Robinson School, a Friends school in [[Philadelphia]], Pennsylvania.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://library.haverford.edu/file-id-841|archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20150421191835/http://library.haverford.edu/file-id-841|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 21, 2015|title=Finding Aid for the EMILY HOWLAND PAPERS,1926-1975 (Haverford College Library Special Collections)|access-date=March 10, 2018}}</ref>