Wharton, Deborah Fisher, 1795-1888
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Samuel M. Janney Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-183
Overview
Samuel McPherson Janney was a Virginia Quaker minister, author, educator, and reformer. In 1839 he opened a boarding school for girls in Loudoun County. He traveled widely in the ministry, meeting with other denominations as well as being immersed in the contemporary issues facing the Society of Friends. Among his activities were establishing schools for African Americans and women, creating public schools in Virginia, and the abolition of slavery. In 1869 he was appointed Superintendent of...
Dates:
1815-1880
Longshore-Williams family correspondence
Collection — Othertype SC-076
Identifier: SFHL-SC-076
Abstract
This collection includes letters written to Mary W. Longshore from the family of her sister, Martha Williams, after the Williams moved from Pennsylvania to Warsaw, Ohio. Included are letters from her sister, brother-in-law, Isaac B. Williams, and nephews, Jonathon and Jeremiah. These letters relate family and local news, and news about the temperance and anti-slavery movements. A letter from Isaac B. Williams, dated 1861, relates his thoughts on the prospect of civil war. A letter from Dr....
Dates:
1840-1965-bulk 1840-1861
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- Subject: Antislavery movements X
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- Abolitionists 1
- Church controversies -- Society of Friends 1
- Church work with Indians -- Society of Friends 1
- Congregational Friends 1
- Freedmen -- Virginia 1
- Freedmen -- Washington (D.C.) 1
- Hicksites -- 19th century 1
- Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1869-1934 1
- Indians of North America -- Missions 1
- Lay ministry -- Society of Friends 1
- Quaker authors 1
- Quakers -- Education 1
- Quakers -- Ohio -- Columbiana County 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Bucks County 1
- Quakers -- Virginia 1
- Sermons, American 1
- Slavery -- United States 1
- Slavery and the church -- Society of Friends 1
- Social reformers -- 19th century 1
- Society of Friends -- Hicksite separation 1
- Society of Friends -- History 1
- Society of Friends -- Sermons 1
- Temperance -- Ohio -- Columbiana County 1
- Temperance and religion -- Society of Friends 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Public Opinion 1 + ∧ less
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