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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
John Greenleaf Whittier Manuscript Collection
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-063
Overview
John Greenleaf Whittier was a New England Quaker poet, journalist, and abolitionist. His poetry, inspired by his religious and moral beliefs, was well regarded during his lifetime, and he was respected by both Orthodox and Hicksite Quakers. The collection contains Whittier correspondence, manuscript poetry, books, photographs and miscellaneous material.
Dates:
1708-1896
Mira Sharpless Townsend Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-320
Overview
The collection contains papers of Mira Sharpless Townsend, a major Quaker social activist and reformer in Philadelphia. Mira Sharpless Townsend (1798-1859) was born in Philadelphia, attended Friends Select School, and in 1828 married Samuel Townsend (1800-1887). He was a member of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting by whom she had six children, only two surviving to adulthood: Emily Sharpless Townsend who married Powell Stackhouse and Clara Gordon Townsend, married William Penn Troth. During the...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1815 - 1858; 1806 - 1910
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- Bennett, William, 1804-1873 1
- Brown, Gould 1
- Carmalt, Caleb 1
- Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880 1
- Comly, John, 1773-1850 1
- Dorsey, William, 1811-1874 1
- Dugdale, Joseph A., 1810-1896 1
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 1
- Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
- Foulke, William Dudley, 1848-1935 1
- Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 1
- Griscom, Samuel S., 1802-1878 1
- Hallowell, Benjamin, 1799-1877 1
- Hopkins, Elizabeth 1
- Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852 1
- Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910 1
- Hunt, Uriah, 1796?-1967 1
- Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835 1
- Jackson, John, 1809-1855 1
- Janney family 1
- Janney, Elizabeth, 1802-1893 1
- Janney, Joseph, 1800-1866 1
- Janney, Samuel M. (Samuel Mcpherson), 1801-1880 1
- Jewett, Tacy M. 1
- Johnson, Jane 1
- Jones, Horatio Gates, 1822-1893 1
- Macy, William H., 1805-1887 1
- McClintock, Thomas, 1792?-1876 1
- Parrish, Dillwyn, 1809-1886 1
- Parrish, Edward, 1822-1872 1
- Quimby, Daniel 1
- Rosine Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Saunders, John, 1814-1891 1
- Thomas, Philip E. (Philip Evan), 1776-1861 1
- Thomas, Philip W. 1
- Townsend, Mira Sharpless, 1798-1859 1
- Truman, George 1
- Valentino, Carmen 1
- Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, 1844-1911 1
- Wharton, Deborah Fisher, 1795-1888 1
- White, Barclay, 1821-1903 1
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