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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
Hunn-Karsner Photograph Collection.
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-PA-214
Overview
The collection contains photographs of the family of Quakers Ezekiel Hunn and Lydia Jones Sharpless Hunn and their granddaughter, Katherine Hunn Karsner, who married Joseph Reed Karsner in 1930. Compiled Katherine Hunn Karsner, it includes 19th century family albums, early twentieth century photographs, and also focuses on Katherine's daughter, Mary Ann Karsner Kegler (1932-1983) who moved to Alaska as a college student and was one of the founders of Chena Ridge Monthly Meeting.
Dates:
1870 - 1970
Lydia Jones Sharpless Hunn Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-070
Overview
Lydia Jones Sharpless Hunn (1818-1911) was a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Orthodox Quaker. The collection contains diaries (1881-1908), reminiscences (1893), and other family papers.
Dates:
1881-1908
Patience Hunn Jenkins Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-288
Overview
Patience Hunn Jenkins (1805-1884) was a Quaker minister of Camden Monthly Meeting, Delaware. The collection contains journals, a letter book, and miscellaneous correspondence reflecting her life in the ministry and social concerns. Her brother, John Hunn (1818-1894) with whom she was very close, was a major participant in the Underground Railroad.
Dates:
1841-1860
Sharpless Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-040
Overview
The collection represents two branches of the Sharpless family of Pennsylvania descended from Joseph and Lydia (Lewis) Sharpless). It contains correspondence between extended Sharpless family relations including Sharpless, Hunn, Jones, Drinker families and journals of Joshua Sharpless, a Quaker minister who worked with Native Americans and visited Quaker meetings in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Canada. Correspondence covers various topics including the travels of women ministers, yellow fever,...
Dates:
1792-1892
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- Hunn, Ezekiel, 1841-1926 2
- Hunn, John, 1818-1894 2
- Hunn, Lydia Jones Sharpless, 1818-1911 2
- Karsner family 2
- Karsner, Katherine Hunn, 1899-1993 2
- Kegler, Mary Ann Hunn Karsner, 1932-1983 2
- Sharpless family 2
- Westtown Boarding School 2
- American Friends Service Committee 1
- Dillwyn, George, 1738-1820 1
- Hunn, Ezekiel, 1810-1902 1
- Jenkins family 1
- Jenkins, Patience H. (Patience Hunn), 1805-1884 1
- Jones, Rebecca, 1739-1817 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 1
- Savery, William, 1721 or 1722-1787 1
- Sharples, Edith, 1743-1787 1
- Sharples, Joshua, 1747-1826 1
- Sharpless, Townsend 1
- Williamson, Lydia Hunn (Lydia Mary (Polly)), 1888-1971 1 ∧ less
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