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Fisher-Warner Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-042
Overview
Miers Fisher (1748-1819), a birthright Quaker, was a prominent lawyer, legislator, philanthropist, merchant, and scientist in early Federal Philadelphia. Benjamin Warner, publisher and bookseller, married Fisher's daughter, Lydia, in 1814. Born in 1748 in Philadelphia, the son of Joshua and Sarah Rowland Fisher, Miers Fisher married Sarah Redwood in 1774. He was among a group of prominent Quaker merchants who were temporarily exiled to Winchester, Virginia, during the Revolution. Miers and...
Dates:
1684-1924
Isaac Hicks Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-197
Overview
Isaac Hicks (1767-1820) was a New York Quaker merchant. He established a large fleet of international trading vessels and financially helped to support his cousin, Edward Hicks (1780-1849), the Pennsylvania Quaker folk artist. Isaac Hicks traveled extensively with his cousin, Elias Hicks (1748-1830), the New York Quaker minister. The collection contains primarily the correspondence of Isaac Hicks, including letters from Isaac Hicks to his wife describing religious journeys taken with Elias...
Dates:
1798-ca. 1956 (bulk 1798-1818)
Joseph Wharton Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-162
Overview
Joseph Wharton (1826-1909) was a prominent Philadelphia Quaker merchant, industrialist, scientist, and philanthropist who was active in 19th century Delaware Valley manufacturing, business, and education development. The papers cover in depth his business activities as well as his career as Manager of Swarthmore College for over 35 years and as founder of the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania. The collection includes business correspondence, 1855-1908, of...
Dates:
1691-1955
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- Fisher family 2
- Fisher, Jabez Maud, 1750-1779 2
- Fisher, Miers, 1748-1819 2
- Boyd, Lizette, 1838-1867 1
- Comly, John, 1773-1850 1
- Fisher, Hannah Rodman, 1764-1819 1
- Fisher, Jabez M., 1801-1876 1
- Fisher, Jabez Maud, 1842-1879 1
- Fisher, Joshua, 1707-1783 1
- Fisher, Miers, 1786-1813 1
- Fisher, Miers, 1834- 1
- Fisher, Morton C. (Morton Coates), fld 1835-1889 1
- Fisher, Nancy Andrews, 1845-1883 1
- Fisher, Redwood, 1782-1856 1
- Fisher, Redwood, 1839-1870 1
- Fisher, Robert Andrews, 1832-1893 1
- Fisher, Sarah Redwood, 1755-1847 1
- Fisher, Thomas, 1741-1810 1
- Fisher, Thomas, 1776-1798 1
- Gibbons, J. S. (James Sloan), 1810-1892 1
- Hicks family 1
- Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849 1
- Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 1
- Hicks, Isaac, 1767-1820 1
- Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852 1
- Lewis, Sarah, -1821 1
- Longstreth, Sarah, 1792-1827 1
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- Price, Hannah, 1793-1850 1
- Rotch, Thomas, 1767-1823. 1
- Rotch, William, 1734-1828 1
- Smith, Rebecca Smith, 1795-1846 1
- Swarthmore College 1
- Warner family 1
- Warner, Benjamin, 1786-1821 1
- Warner, John, 1817-1873 1
- Warner, Joseph, d. 1859 1
- Warner, Lydia, 1788-1850 1
- Warner, Miers Fisher, 1815-1878 1
- Warner, Redwood Fisher, b. 1818 1
- Wharton School 1
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- Wharton, Anna Lovering, 1830-1914 1
- Wharton, Deborah Fisher, 1795-1888 1
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