Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Haveland, Laura Smith

HAVELAND, Laura Smith, philanthropist, b. in Ketley, Leeds co., Canada, 20 Dec., 1808. At the age of thirteen she was received as a birth-right member of the Society of Friends, and later was married to Charles Haveland, Jr. A few years afterward she united with the Wesleyan Methodist church. She has founded the River Raisin institute for manual labor at Adrian, Mich., and in 1869 established the Michigan orphan asylum. During the civil war she was unwearied in her efforts to aid the suffering in camps and hospitals.