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Emlen Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-038
Overview
Contains papers relating to the Emlen family, residents of Middletown and West Chester, Pennsylvania. Chiefly correspondence (1817-1849) of Sarah Foulke Farquhar Emlen (1787-1849), Quaker minister, relating to her travels to visit Friends' meetings in England, Ireland, New England, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Virginia. Also correspondence of Quaker ministers 1740-1790, copybooks, and memorabilia. Includes material relating to Westtown School, a Quaker boarding school...
Dates:
1740 - 1886; Majority of material found within 1817 - 1849
Hunn-Karsner Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-322
Overview
The collection contains correspondence, writings, and other papers of the family of Ezekiel Hunn and Lydia Jones Sharpless Hunn, Philadelphia and Delaware Quakers. The papers were compiled by their granddaughter Katherine Hunn Karsner (1899-1993). She was a Philadelphia Quaker minister and married Joseph Reed Karsner in 1930 under the care of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting (Hicksite). The bulk of the collection is composed of correspondence from their daughter, Mary Ann Karsner Kegler...
Dates:
1809 - 1985; Majority of material found within 1947 - 1974
Pennsylvania Hall Association Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-074
Overview
The Pennsylvania Hall Association was a stockholders association formed in 1837 to erect a building in Philadelphia dedicated “to Liberty and the Rights of Man.” Many of the primary movers behind the Association were Quakers involved in the anti-slavery movement. The building was opened on May 14, 1838, and, as a symbol of the abolitionist movement, was destroyed by an angry mob on May 17, 1838. This collection contains minutes of the Board of Managers of the Association, 1838-1847, financial...
Dates:
1837-1899 (bulk 1837-1849)
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- Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 1
- Churchman, John, 1753-1805 1
- Emlen family 1
- Emlen, James, 1760-1798 1
- Emlen, James, 1792-1866 1
- Emlen, Samuel 1
- Emlen, Samuel, 1829-1920 1
- Emlen, Sarah Foulke Farquhar (Sarah Foulke Farquhar Emlen), 1787-1849 1
- Forster, Josiah, 1782-1870 1
- Fothergill, Samuel 1
- Hunn family 1
- Hunn, Ezekiel, 1810-1902 1
- Hunn, John, 1818-1894 1
- Karsner family 1
- Karsner, Katherine Hunn, 1899-1993 1
- Kegler, Mary Ann Hunn Karsner, 1932-1983 1
- Kite, Thomas, 1785-1845 1
- Mott, Thomas 1
- Neall, Daniel, 1784-1846 1
- Pennsylvania Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Pennsylvania Hall Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Sharpless, Townsend 1
- Shillitoe, Thomas, 1754-1836 1
- Truman, Joseph M. 1
- Tuke, Esther, 1727-1794 1
- Webb, Samuel 1
- Westtown Boarding School 1
- Wilbur, John, 1774-1856 1
- Williamson, Lydia Hunn (Lydia Mary (Polly)), 1888-1971 1 ∧ less
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