Kimberton Boarding School
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Fussell-Lewis Family Papers
Collection — Othertype SC-045
Identifier: SFHL-SC-045
Abstract
This collection includes the papers and correspondence of the Fussell and Lewis famlies. The latter relate primarily family and local news. Of particular interest are several letters by Graceanna Lewis denouncing slavery, an account of the response in New York Yearly Meeting to the disownment of Isaac T. Hopper, and correspondence relating an encounter with the Seneca Indians. Other letters include those written to Mariann Lewis by friends from Kimberton Boarding School, some of which relate...
Dates:
1836-1938-bulk 1836-1866
Elizabeth F. Haines papers
Collection — Othertype SC-051
Identifier: SFHL-SC-051
Abstract
This collection contains the papers of Elizabeth French Haines, relating to Kimberton Boarding School. Included are her piecebook and copybook, letters she wrote to her father and brother while at school, a Kimberton catalogue, and letters written by Emmor Kimber to the Haines family. Also included are letters from Elizabeth to her aunt describing her work as a school teacher, letters from Kimberton friends, a family deed, and a daguerretype of Elizabeth Haines later in her life.
Dates:
1838-1872
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-087
Abstract
Bartholomew Fussell was a Quaker minister who married Rebecca Bond at Abington Monthly Meeting in Pennsylvania in 1781. He was a member of Uwchlan Monthly Meeting of Friends at his death in 1838. The couple had eight children, viz. Esther, William, Sarah, Joseph, Jacob, Bartholomew, Rebecca, and Solomon. Esther married John Lewis in 1818, and they had four children, among whom was Graceanna Lewis, Quaker scientist and humanitarian. Joseph Fussell married Elizabeth Moore in 1814, and their...
Dates:
1698-1978
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- Antislavery movements 2
- African Americans -- Education 1
- China -- Description and travel 1
- Naturalists -- United States 1
- Phrenology 1
- Quaker civic leaders 1
- Quaker scientists 1
- Quaker social reformers 1
- Quaker women 1
- Quakers -- Diaries 1
- Quakers -- Education 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County 1
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 1
- Seneca Indians 1
- Slavery and the church -- Society of Friends 1
- Social reformers 1
- Society of Friends -- Education 1
- Underground Railroad -- Pennsylvania 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Women artists 1
- albums (books) 1
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