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Heacock Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-060
Overview
The Heacocks were a Quaker family of Bucks and Montgomery Counties, Pennsylvania. The collection includes correspondence, diary, and letter book (1871-1872), of Joseph Heacock (1846-1918), farmer, of Wyncote, Pa., including material relating to his work on a farm in Albion, N.Y., and in iron works in Pittsburgh, Pa., to earn money to pay debts; account book (1836-1877) of his father, Joseph Heacock (1800-1883); papers relating to the teaching activity of his wife, Elizabeth Walker Heacock, and...
Dates:
1773-1928
Emily Howland Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-066
Overview
Emily Howland (1827-1929) was a Quaker humanitarian and educator who is particularly known for her work with formerly-enslaved African Americans in Virginia during and after the American Civil War. A birthright Friend, Emily Howland was the only daughter of Slocum and Hannah (Tallcot) Howland of Sherwood, N.Y. She was educated locally and for a brief period in Philadelphia, and then moved to Washington, D.C. in 1857 to teach at the Miner School for Freedmen. During the war she worked at a...
Dates:
1763-1929
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- Heacock, Joseph, 1800-1883 1
- Heacock, Joseph, 1846-1918 1
- Heacock, Martha 1
- Howland family 1
- Howland, Benjamin, 1837-1882 1
- Howland, Emily, 1827-1929 1
- Howland, Hannah T. (Hannah Tallcot), 1796-1867 1
- Howland, Slocum, 1794-1881 1
- Howland, William, 1823-1905 1
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- Putnam, Caroline F., 1826-1917 1
- Richland Turnpike or Plank Road Company 1
- Scipio Executive Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1886-1924 : Scipio, N.Y.) 1
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- Strange, Edward, d. 1872 1
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- Tallcot, Joseph, 1768-1853 1
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