Sharpless family
Family
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
American Friends' letters
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-851
Overview
The collection is composed chiefly of letters of members of the Society of Friends in the United States from the 17th to the 20th centuries; there are also documents, clippings, published articles, and miscellaneous manuscripts.
Dates:
1682-1986
E. Newbold Cooper / Margaret Hawkins collection
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1180
Overview
Represents, in large measure, the Cooper and Wills families of E. Newbold Cooper and the Green, Hawkins, and Sharpless families of Margaret Hawkins.
Dates:
1820s-1979
Darlington Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-296
Overview
This collection contains the papers of the Darlington family of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and Woodstown, New Jersey. Quakers with strong ties to Swarthmore College, the family was involved in education, social and peace concerns, and businesses in the Philadelphia area. Charles J. Darlington (1894-1966) served as Clerk of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends during the reunification of the two Philadelphia Yearly Meetings. The collection includes family...
Dates:
1831-2012
Lydia Jones Sharpless Hunn Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-070
Overview
Lydia Jones Sharpless Hunn (1818-1911) was a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Orthodox Quaker. The collection contains diaries (1881-1908), reminiscences (1893), and other family papers.
Dates:
1881-1908
Kite Family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1111.5
Overview
Members of the Kite family and others discuss 19th century Quaker issues, family, and attending Meeting.
Dates:
1820-1879
Sharpless addition
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1319
Overview
This collection contains papers, clippings, and photographs relating to the Sharpless family.
Dates:
1903-2018
Sharpless family letterbook
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-02-017
Overview
The personal correspondence included in the Sharpless family letterbook acted as a circulating "family letter," and was added to by each family member with the goal of assembling the letters at the end of the year and binding them together for the use of future generations. Letters generally provide news of each letter writer, as well as comments on past letters. Letter writers include Susanna F. Sharpless, Edith Sharpless, Thomas Sharpless, Elizabeth S. Smedley, Ann Sharpless, William...
Dates:
1883
Sharpless Family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1111
Overview
Letters, accounts, diaries, and journals of members of the interrelated Sharpless and Kite families, including the papers of Joshua Sharpless (1746/7-1826) and letters of Mary Kite (1792-1861) as well as the papers of Edward G. Smedley, ca. 1836-1908, dealing with his experiences as a conscientious objector during the Civil War, 1863-1866.
Dates:
1748-1875
Sharpless Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-040
Overview
The collection represents two branches of the Sharpless family of Pennsylvania descended from Joseph and Lydia (Lewis) Sharpless). It contains correspondence between extended Sharpless family relations including Sharpless, Hunn, Jones, Drinker families and journals of Joshua Sharpless, a Quaker minister who worked with Native Americans and visited Quaker meetings in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Canada. Correspondence covers various topics including the travels of women ministers, yellow...
Dates:
1792-1892
Sharpless family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-163
Overview
This collection contains materials of the Sharpless family, related to the Anna T. Jeanes and Joseph Jeanes Fund and the George School.
Dates:
1891-1920
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- Collection 11
- Digital Record 1
- Subject
- Quakers -- Diaries 4
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 4
- correspondence 4
- Quakers -- Genealogy 3
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 3
- diaries 3
- Agriculture -- Pennsylvania -- Delaware County 2
- Diaries 2
- Lay ministry -- Society of Friends 2
- Quakers -- Family relationships 2
- Quakers -- History 2
- Society of Friends -- United States 2
- Society of Friends -- Wilburite controversy 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Agriculture -- Pennsylvania -- History 1
- Architects -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Business 1
- Chester County (Pa.) -- History -- Sources 1
- College presidents 1
- College students -- United States 1
- Conscientious objection 1
- Delaware County (Pa.) 1
- Education 1
- England -- Description and travel 1
- Europe -- Description and travel 1
- Europe -- Description and travel -- 19th century 1
- Europe -- Description and travel -- Diaries 1
- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Indians of North America -- Nebraska 1
- Indigenous rights -- Civil rights 1
- Iowa Indians 1
- Lay ministry -- Pennsylvania 1
- Manuscripts, American 1
- Mathematics 1
- Media (Pa.) 1
- Middletown (Delaware County, Pa. : Township) 1
- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Quaker architects 1
- Quaker farmers 1
- Quaker women -- Diaries 1
- Quaker women -- Pennsylvania 1
- Quakers 1
- Quakers -- 19th century -- Diaries 1
- Quakers -- Biography 1
- Quakers -- Education 1
- Quakers -- England -- Diaries 1
- Quakers -- Germany 1
- Quakers -- Germany -- History -- 20th century 1
- Quakers -- History -- 19th century 1
- Quakers -- Nebraska 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Education 1
- Quakers -- Travel 1
- Quakers -- Travel -- 20th century 1
- Quakers -- United States -- Biography 1
- Slavery 1
- Slavery -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States 1
- Slavery and the church -- Society of Friends 1
- Smedley family 1
- Society of Friends -- Education 1
- Society of Friends -- Hicksite separation 1
- Society of Friends -- Indian affairs -- History 1
- Society of Friends -- Missions -- Japan 1
- Society of Friends -- Reunification 1
- Spiritual life -- Society of Friends 1
- Travel -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
- Universities and colleges -- Pennsylvania -- Haverford 1
- Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany 1
- biographies (documents) 1
- commonplace books 1
- financial records 1
- letters (correspondence) 1
- manuscripts (documents) 1
- poems 1
- poetry and poems 1
- speeches (documents) 1 + ∧ less
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