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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
Foster-Meyers Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-221
Overview
Contains the papers of the Foster Family, a Wilburite New England Quaker family of Rhode Island, and the Meyers Family, conservative Orthodox Quakers of the Midwest. The families were united in 1924 by the marriage of Henry Cope Foster (1895-1987) of Warwick, Rhode Island, and Thyra Jane Meyers (1898-1984), born in West Branch, Iowa. The collection contains extensive personal correspondence of five generations of the Foster and Meyers families, school materials, diaries, writings, reminiscences...
Dates:
1765-2006
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- Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 1
- Churchman, John, 1753-1805 1
- Coope, Benjamin, 1765-1845 1
- Coope, Rachel, 1771-1807 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
- Foster family 1
- Foster, Elizabeth, 1888-1980 1
- Foster, Henry C. (Henry Cope), 1895-1987 1
- Foster, Horace B. (Horace Bragg), 1850-1933 1
- Foster, John Henry, -1926 1
- Foster, Mary C. (Mary Cope), 1854-1936 1
- Foster, Thyra Jane 1
- Fothergill, Samuel 1
- Friends Boarding School (Barnesville, Ohio) 1
- Iowa Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends. Hickory Grove Quarterly Meeting 1
- Kite, Thomas, 1785-1845 1
- Meyers family 1
- Meyers, Bernice L. (Bernice Lydia), 1896-1946 1
- Meyers, Joseph E. (Joseph Elkinton), 1858-1937 1
- Meyers, Mary W. (Mary Worthington), 1862-1925 1
- Muncy Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends) 1
- Nantucket Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Orthodox : 1845- 1867 : Nantucket, Mass.) 1
- New England Yearly Meeting of Friends 1
- Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative : 1854- ) 1
- Providence Monthly Meeting of Friends (Providence, R.I.) 1
- Sharples, Edith, 1743-1787 1
- Sharples, Joshua, 1747-1826 1
- Shillitoe, Thomas, 1754-1836 1
- Stillwater Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Wilburite : 1854- : Barnesville, Ohio) 1
- Tuke, Esther, 1727-1794 1
- Warner family 1
- Wilbur, John, 1774-1856 1 ∧ less
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