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Fisher-Brinton family papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-332
Overview
The Fisher-Brinton collection contains the papers of an Irish-American and Pennsylvania family with roots in the earliest years of the Society of Friends. It includes correspondence, diaries, memoirs, photographs, scrapbooks, and other materials that reflect family and Quaker concerns, and, in particular, the Conservative branch of the Society of Friends. Abraham Fisher (1823-1909) was a member of a prominent Quaker family of Youghal County, Ireland. In 1871, he moved his family to rural...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1846 - 2020; 1764 - 2020
Oliver Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-334
Overview
The collection contains the papers of the family of Wendell French Oliver, New England and Pennsylvania Wilburite Quakers. Gamaliel Wallis Oliver (1772-1849) was a successful Lynn, Massachusetts, shoe manufacturer who married Charlotte Breed in 1807. Two grandsons, Wendell French Oliver and William Theodore Oliver, were conscientious objectors in WWI and served with the AFSC in European Reconstruction. The collection includes journals, photographs, and related papers of Wendell, W. Theodore,...
Dates:
1706 - 1970; Majority of material found within 1830 - 1960
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- Quaker women -- United States -- Diaries 1
- Quakers -- 20th century -- Diaries 1
- Quakers -- Argentina 1
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- Quakers -- World War, 1914–1918 -- Civilian relief 1
- Reconstruction (1914-1939) 1
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- Society of Friends -- Schisms and separations 1
- Society of Friends -- Wilburite controversy 1
- Women authors, American -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief -- France 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Correspondence 1
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- Brinton family 1
- Brinton, David, 1864-1945 1
- Brinton, Eleanor Fisher, 1868-1958 1
- Brinton, Joseph, 1828-1917 1
- Brinton, Mary H. (Mary Howland), 1833-1870 1
- Brinton, William Fisher, 1909-2008 1
- Fisher family 1
- Fisher, Abraham, 1823-1909 1
- Fisher, Sarah Wright, 1822-1886 1
- Fisher, Susanna G., 1865-1956 1
- Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 1
- Gould, Thomas B., 1813-1856 1
- Hopkins, Mary Brinton, 1831-1926 1
- Howland family 1
- Howland, David P., 1809-1852 1
- Jenkins, Mehetabel, 1731-1815 1
- Koenig, Lucille 1
- New England Yearly Meeting of Friends 1
- Oliver family 1
- Oliver, Wendell French, 1893-1953 1
- Oliver, William T. (William Theodore), 1854-1933 1
- Swartz, Miriam (FHL donor) 1
- Wilbur, John, 1774-1856 1 ∧ less
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