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Collection of Bringhurst Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-046
Overview
Contains the collected correspondence of the Bringhurst family, largely compiled by C. Marshall Taylor. It includes correspondence, 1780-1806, of Philadelphia Quaker businessman James Bringhurst and his letters received from John Murray of New York City. Bringhurst corresponded with family and prominent friends including John Dickinson, Job Scott, Nathan Hunt, James Pemberton, Jesse Kersey, Lindley Murray and Moses Brown. Of particular interest are descriptions of life in Philadelphia and the...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1780 - 1811; 1780 - 1941
Fisher-Whitson Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-281
Overview
This collection contains manuscripts and other materials relating to the Whitson, Smedley, Fisher and other Quaker families of southeastern Pennsylvania. Along with commonplace books, correspondence, and photographs are a series of thematically arranged genealogical binders assembled by the donors. Of particular interest are the battlefield correspondence of Sam Smedley who was killed in the American Civil War and the journal of Esther Whitson, later Cope, who served as a nurse with the AFSC in...
Dates:
1778-2011
Benjamin F. Whitson Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-164
Overview
Benjamin F. Whitson (1867-1957) of Moylan, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, was a Quaker businessman. Whitson was active in Quaker affairs such as Friends World Conference in 1937 and the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and in Quaker concerns such as peace, temperance, and education. He was the son of Thomas H. and Phebe (Cooper) Whitson, and his family and extended family has deep Quaker associations. Both Benjamin Whitson and his father, were recognized as Quaker ministers and made visits to Ohio...
Dates:
1835-1957
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- Whitson family 2
- Bringhurst, James, 1730-1810 1
- Bringhurst, Joseph, 1733-1811 1
- Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 1
- Cooper family 1
- Cope, Esther Whitson, b.1900 1
- Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
- Fisher family 1
- Fisher, Alfred William 1
- Fisher, Thomas S., b.1928 1
- Five Years Meeting (Society of Friends: U.S.) 1
- Foulke, Elizabeth, 1758-1820 1
- Friends World Conference (2nd : 1937 : Swarthmore College; Haverford College) 1
- Hoag, Huldah, 1762-1850 1
- Hunt, Nathan, 1758-1853 1
- Jacob, Caroline M. 1
- Kersey, Jesse, 1768-1845 1
- Masters family 1
- Murray, John, 1758-1819 1
- Murray, Lindley, 1745-1826 1
- Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative : 1854- ) 1
- Pemberton, James, 1723-1809 1
- Pennell family 1
- Pennell, Clarence 1
- Schneider, Rebecca Fisher 1
- Scott, Job, 1751-1793 1
- Smedley family 1
- Smedley, Benjamin D. 1
- Smedley, Otto, 1827-1882 1
- Smedley, Sam (Samuel Fothergill), 1839-1864 1
- Thorp family 1
- Whitson, Jane Thorp, 1866-1952 1
- Whitson, Margaret 1
- Whitson, T. (Thomas Barclay), b.1894 1
- Whitson, Thomas H., 1829-1907 1 ∧ less
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