Gibbons family
Family
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Allen Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-001
Overview
Contains the papers of the Allen Family, a Quaker family of Philadelphia and Delaware County, Pennsylvania, which traced its ancestry back to one of William Penn's commissioners. Includes papers relating to the Allen and related Breidenhart, Casdorp, Gibbons, Hubley, Jacobs, Matlack, and Samuel families. The Allen family papers contain extensive genealogical material, family correspondence, journals and memorials which provide excellent source material on Quaker family life in the 19th...
Dates:
1700-1954
Abby Hopper Gibbons Family Photographs
Collection — Othertype PA-069
Identifier: SFHL-PA-069
Overview
Abigail Hopper Gibbons (1801-1893) was an important figure in many of the reform movements in the middle and late nineteenth century. Like her father, Isaac T. Hopper (1771-1852), "Abby" Gibbons was an ardent abolitionist and dedicated to prison reform. This collection includes: a carte de visite album compiled by Abby Hopper Gibbons; a daguerreotype of Abby with her husband James and children; and photographs of her descendents, the Dunning family.
Dates:
1854 - 1935
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-174
Overview
Abby Hopper Gibbons (1801-1893), daughter of Isaac T. Hopper (1771-1852), was an important figure in many of the reform movements of the mid- and late nineteenth centuries, especially abolition and her work with the Women's Prison Association and Isaac T. Hopper Home. In 1833, she married fellow Hicksite Quaker, James Sloan Gibbons (1810-1892), a member of the New York Yearly Meeting of Friends. Her daughter, Sarah Hopper Emerson, used some of this material as a basis for her 1897 biography...
Dates:
1824-1992 [bulk 1850-1892]
Sarah Hopper Palmer Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-115
Overview
Sarah Hopper Palmer (1796-1885) was the eldest child of Isaac T. Hopper (1771-1852), noted Hicksite Quaker abolitionist and social reformer. The collection was apparently compiled as a basis for Lydia Maria Child's Life of Isaac T. Hopper, which was first published in 1853. The original manuscript of the published book is included in the collection. The collection contains material on the Palmer, Hunn and Jenkins families, family correspondence, legal and...
Dates:
1705-1883
Rhoads-Gibbons family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1299
Overview
The collection contains the records of members of the Rhoads and Gibbons families between 1832 and 1963. It consists of correspondence, genealogical materials, ephemera, manuscripts, and photographs.
Dates:
1832-1963
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- Quakers -- Social life and customs 3
- Quaker abolitionists 2
- Quakers -- New York (State) -- New York 2
- genealogies (histories) 2
- Abolitionists 1
- Delaware County (Pa.) -- Genealogy 1
- Delaware County (Pa.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Pennsylvania -- Genealogy 1
- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Genealogy 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Prison reform -- Society of Friends 1
- Quaker prison reformers 1
- Quaker women 1
- Quakers 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Quakers -- Portraits 1
- Quakers -- United States -- Civil War, 1861–1865 1
- Society of Friends -- United States 1
- biographies (documents) 1
- deeds 1
- diaries 1
- manuscripts (documents) 1
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