Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers
Scope and Contents
Family papers of Mariana Wright Chapman. Includes her correspondence received while she was active in suffrage activities in New York State, 1893-1900, family letters, particularly between Mariana and Noah, and the correspondence of the Wrights, the Chapmans, and of her son, A.Wright Chapman. The collection also includes Mariana's journals from 1895-1900, that of Caroline Willets, 1842-1846, and as well as suffrage memorabilia, family copybooks and albums, and financial records, including an account book of the Manhasssett Association of Relief, 1861-1871.
Dates
- Creation: 1808-1983 (bulk: 1842-1911)
Creator
- Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907 (Person)
- Almy, Martha R. (Contributor, Person)
- Anthony, Mary S. (Contributor, Person)
- Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) (Contributor, Person)
- Backus, Helen H. (Contributor, Person)
- Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950 (Contributor, Person)
- Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa Brown, 1825-1921 (Contributor, Person)
- Blatch, Harriot Stanton, 1856-1940 (Contributor, Person)
- Brooks, John Graham, 1846-1938 (Contributor, Person)
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 (Contributor, Person)
- Curtis, Augusta L. (Contributor, Person)
- Curtis, Elizabeth Burrill (Contributor, Person)
- DeGarmo, Emily L. (Contributor, Person)
- Greenleaf, Jean Brooks (Contributor, Person)
- Hall, Florence Howe, 1845-1922 (Contributor, Person)
- Helmuth, Fannie (Contributor, Person)
- Hitchcock, Julia M. (Contributor, Person)
- Hooper, Franklin William, 1851-1914 (Contributor, Person)
- Howland, Emily, 1827-1929 (Contributor, Person)
- Hussey, Mary D. (Contributor, Person)
- Jacobi, Mary Putnam, 1842-1906 (Contributor, Person)
- Kelsey, Otto, -1852 (Contributor, Person)
- LeRow, Caroline B. (Contributor, Person)
- Loines, Mary Hillard, 1844-1944 (Contributor, Person)
- Lord, Martha Mott, 1828-1916 (Contributor, Person)
- Lowell, Josephine Shaw, 1843-1905 (Contributor, Person)
- Miller, Olive Thorne, 1831-1918 (Contributor, Person)
- Plummer, Hannah A. (Contributor, Person)
- Powell, Aaron M. (Aaron Macy), 1832-1899 (Contributor, Person)
- Powell, Anna Rice, 1834-1915 (Contributor, Person)
- Rossa, Mary J. O'Donovan (Contributor, Person)
- Seccomb, Mary T. (Contributor, Person)
- Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919 (Contributor, Person)
- Skinner, Charles Rufus, 1844-1928 (Contributor, Person)
- Sprague, Elizabeth H. (Contributor, Person)
- Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902 (Contributor, Person)
- Stebbins, Martha J. Hadley (Contributor, Person)
- Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893 (Contributor, Person)
- Upton, Harriet Taylor (Contributor, Person)
- Chapman, A. Wright (Aron Wright), 1872-1961 (Contributor, Person)
- Chapman, Charles H., 1865-1956 (Contributor, Person)
- Chapman, Joseph B., 1798-1847 (Contributor, Person)
- Chapman, Joseph B., 1837-1904 (Contributor, Person)
- Chapman, Mary W., 1869-1940 (Contributor, Person)
- Chapman, Noah H. (Noah Haines), 1836-1914 (Contributor, Person)
- Turner, Charlotte C. (Charlotte Chapman), 1877-1942 (Contributor, Person)
- Willets, Amos, 1792-1864 (Contributor, Person)
- Wright, Amos W., 1844-1916 (Contributor, Person)
- Wright, Aron, 1810-1885 (Contributor, Person)
- Wright, Mary W. (Mary Willets), 1820-1904 (Contributor, Person)
- Titus, Ann, 1794-1826 (Contributor, Person)
- Willets, Caroline, 1794-1859 (Contributor, Person)
- Manhasset Association of Relief (Contributor, Organization)
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite: 1828-1955) (Contributor, Organization)
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Biographical / Historical
Mariana Wright Chapman was born in New York City in 1843, the daughter of Quakers Aaron and Mary Willets Wright. She attended Friends Institute, later called Friends Seminary, until her family's move to Springboro, Ohio, in the early 1850s. She spent two years at Antioch College. In 1864 she married Noah H. Chapman under the care of Springboro Monthly Meeting. The young family moved east in 1880 and purchased a home in Brooklyn, New York.
As their three sons and two daughters got older, Mariana became active in the struggle for woman suffrage. Her interest had been aroused in the mid 1880s when she attended a women's suffrage meeting and was inspired by the speakers. She was eventually named President of the Women's Suffrage Association of Brooklyn and then resigned to take the office of president of the New York State Suffrage Association. She was also a member of the Brooklyn Women's Club from 1888 until her death, was a charter member of the New York League for Political Education, and was instrumental in founding the Friends Equal Rights Association. In addition to suffrage, she was also actively involved in other social and religious concerns, particularly prison reform, peace, and education. She died at her country home in Port Washington, New York, in 1907, after a long illness.
Noah H. Chapman was born in Ohio in 1836, the son of Joseph B. and Charlotte Haines Chapman. He worked in the dry goods business in Cincinnati, and, after the move to New York in 1880, was a member of the firm of what became Field, Chapman, & Co., commission merchants. He was also an Elder of New York Monthly Meeting.
Extent
3.25 linear ft. (7 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Mariana Wright Chapman was a prominant New York Quaker suffragist. The collection includes correspondence received while she was active in suffrage activities in New York State, 1893-1900, family letters, particularly between Mariana and her husband, Noah, and the correspondence of the Wrights, the Chapmans, and of her son, A.Wright Chapman. The collection also includes Mariana's journals from 1895-1900, that of Caroline Willets, 1842-1846, and as well as suffrage memorabilia, family copybooks and albums, and financial records, including an account book of the Manhasssett Association of Relief, 1861-1871.
Physical Location
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift, Anne Chapman Booth, 2006.
Gift, Estate of Anne Chapman Booth, 2007.
Gift, Estate of Anne Chapman Booth, 2014.017.
Separated Materials
Photographs which were received with this collection have been removed and filed separately, PA138.
Processing Information
Most of the suffrage correspondence was contained in a letter file, filed alphabetically by correspondant. A few later letters from co-suffragists were also found with family correspondence and were filed with the former.
Subject
- Chapman family (Family)
- Willets family (Family)
- Wright family (Family)
- Hicks, Rachel, 1789-1878 (Person)
- Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907 (Person)
- Chapman, Noah H. (Noah Haines), 1836-1914 (Person)
- New York State Woman Suffrage Association (Organization)
- Brooklyn Women's Club (Organization)
- National American Woman Suffrage Association (Organization)
- Woman Suffrage Association of Brooklyn (Organization)
- Title
- An Inventory of the Family Papers of Mariana Wright Chapman, 1808-1983
- Author
- FHL staff
- Date
- 2007
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
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