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Ash-Schofield Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-004
Overview
Samuel Shinn Ash and his wife, Sarah Jane Schofield Ash, were prominent Quakers, active in a variety of philanthropic activities, including anti-slavery, peace, temperance, women's rights, and education. Samuel Shinn Ash was apprenticed as an engineer and machinist and worked in manufacturing. This collection consists of family papers, manuscript letters and memorabilia, largely of a domestic nature. Includes some descriptions of Meetings and religious journeys, of the early struggles of...
Dates:
1796 - 1933; Majority of material found within 1833 - 1912
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
Fisher-Brinton family papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-332
Overview
The Fisher-Brinton collection contains the papers of an Irish-American and Pennsylvania family with roots in the earliest years of the Society of Friends. It includes correspondence, diaries, memoirs, photographs, scrapbooks, and other materials that reflect family and Quaker concerns, and, in particular, the Conservative branch of the Society of Friends. Abraham Fisher (1823-1909) was a member of a prominent Quaker family of Youghal County, Ireland. In 1871, he assumed a position as...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1846 - 2020; 1764 - 2020
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- American Friends Service Committee 1
- Ash, Samuel S. (Samuel Shinn), 1829-1911 1
- Ash, Sarah J. (Sarah Jane), 1835-1912 1
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
- Biddle family 1
- Biddle, Clement M. (Clement Miller), 1876-1959 1
- Biddle, Owen, 1737-1799 1
- Biddle, William Canby, 1864-1942 1
- Brinton family 1
- Brinton, David, 1864-1945 1
- Brinton, Eleanor Fisher, 1868-1958 1
- Brinton, Joseph, 1828-1917 1
- Brinton, Mary H. (Mary Howland), 1833-1870 1
- Brinton, William Fisher, 1909-2008 1
- Child, Mary H. (Mary Hough), 1803-1874 1
- Fisher family 1
- Fisher, Abraham, 1823-1909 1
- Fisher, Sarah Wright, 1822-1886 1
- Fisher, Susanna G., 1865-1956 1
- Gould, Thomas B., 1813-1856 1
- Hollingsworth, H. (Henry), 1737-1803 1
- Hopkins, Mary Brinton, 1831-1926 1
- Howland family 1
- Howland, David P., 1809-1852 1
- James, Dorothy Biddle 1
- Jenkins, Mary Ash, 1875-1948 1
- Lewis, Lucy Biddle, 1861- 1
- Mifflin, Thomas, 1744-1800 1
- New England Yearly Meeting of Friends 1
- Parke, Thomas, 1749-1835 1
- Relief Missions of the Society of Friends 1
- Richardson, Thomas, 1816-1867 1
- Rickman, Lydia Cooper Lewis, -1885 1
- Schofield Normal and Industrial School (Aiken, S.C.) 1
- Schofield, Lydia A. (Lydia Ann), 1835-1909 1
- Schofield, Martha 1
- Schofield, Oliver W. (Oliver Wilson), 1806-1852 1
- Stirling, Anne Biddle, -1857 1
- Swarthmore College 1
- Westtown Boarding School 1
- Wilbur, John, 1774-1856 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 ∧ less
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