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Biddle family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-177
Overview
This collection contains the papers of Philadelphia Quaker Owen Biddle (1737-1799), his son, Clement Biddle (1778-1856), and numerous descendants. Owen Biddle, a scientist and merchant, was a member of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting and helped in the establishment of Westtown School (1799). Owen Biddle's papers, 1772-1793, (Series 1) include correspondence, and journals, some of which relate to his Revolutionary War activities. Three of his letterbooks, 1778-1779, have been microfilmed. The...
Dates:
1793-1951
Kite-Bassett Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-080
Overview
The Kite and Bassett families were Orthodox Quakers from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Lynn, Massachusetts, respectively. James Kite was born in 1808, the son of Benjamin and Rebecca Kite of Philadelphia. In 1837 he was granted a certificate to Salem Monthly Meeting in Massachusetts to marry Lydia B. Rodman, widow of Caleb Rodman and daughter of Isaac and Ruth Bassett of Lynn. James and Lydia had eight children, viz. Ruth, James Rodman, Eliza B., Rebecca, Isaac C. Bassett, Hannah B., Lydia...
Dates:
1837-1930
William Webb Price Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-126
Overview
William Webb Price (1892-1961) was a Quaker architect, teacher, and actor, of Rose Valley, Pennsylvania. The collection contains chiefly letters written by Price to his family while serving with Friends War Victims Relief Committee in France during and shortly after World War I; together with reports, financial papers, memorabilia, and printed material relating to Quaker reconstruction activities in France.
Dates:
1917-1923
Wilmer J. and Mildred Binns Young Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-289
Overview
Wilmer J. Young (1887-1983), a Quaker teacher and peace activist born in Iowa, was involved in post World War I reconstruction in France and Poland. He married Mildred Binns in 1922, and together they worked with AFSC work camps and cooperative farms until he began to teach at Pendle Hill in 1955. The collection contains primarily journals and correspondence from his time in France.
Dates:
1909-2014
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- account books 1 ∧ less
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- American Friends Service Committee 3
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
- Bassett, Hannah, 1815-1855 1
- Bassett, Ruth, d. 1860 1
- Bassett, William, 1803-1871 1
- Biddle family 1
- Biddle, Clement M. (Clement Miller), 1876-1959 1
- Biddle, Owen, 1737-1799 1
- Biddle, William Canby, 1864-1942 1
- Boyce, Eliza B. (Eliza Bassett), 1807-1882 1
- Boyce, Eunice B. (Eunice Bassett), 1811-1864 1
- Delta Cooperative Farm Project (Hillhouse, Miss.) 1
- Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee (London, England) 1
- Haverford College 1
- Hoffman, Ruth McCollin, b. 1890 1
- Hollingsworth, H. (Henry), 1737-1803 1
- James, Dorothy Biddle 1
- Kite, Abbie, 1851-1919 1
- Kite, James R. (James Rodman), 1840-1908 1
- Kite, James, 1808-1856 1
- Kite, Lydia B. (Lydia Bassett), 1813-1872 1
- Lewis, Lucy Biddle, 1861- 1
- Masters, Rebecca K. (Rebecca Kite), 1843-1895 1
- Mifflin, Thomas, 1744-1800 1
- Newhall, Anna G. (Anna Greene), fld 1824-1863 1
- Parke, Thomas, 1749-1835 1
- Pendle Hill (School: Wallingford, Pa.) 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955) 1
- Price, William Webb, 1892-1961 1
- Relief Missions of the Society of Friends 1
- Richardson, Thomas, 1816-1867 1
- Rickman, Lydia Cooper Lewis, -1885 1
- Smedley, Jacob, 1835-1893 1
- Smedley, Ruth K. (Ruth Kite), 1838-1914 1
- Stirling, Anne Biddle, -1857 1
- Swarthmore College 1
- Westtown Boarding School 1
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Congress (1st : 1915) (The Hague, Netherlands) 1
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Geneva, Switzerland (International Office) 1
- Woolman School (Swarthmore, Pa.) 1
- Young, Mildred Binns 1
- Young, Wilmer J. 1 ∧ less
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