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Taylor family

 Family

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Florence E. Taylor Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-145
Abstract Florence E. Taylor was the descendant of a Quaker family whose roots went back to the settlement of Pennsylvania. Her parents were Frederick W. Taylor (1848-1919) and Emily Hunt Taylor (d. 1942). Fred Taylor, a wealthy Philadelphia businessman and philanthropist to the Society of Friends, was the son of Charles Maus Taylor and Anna E. W. Sterling Taylor. His grandfather was Israel Taylor (1782-1850). The collection includes correspondence of Israel Taylor (1782-1850) and Charles M. Taylor...
Dates: 1806-1995

Taylor-Frysinger papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1244
Abstract

This collection contains the personal letters, diaries, and miscellany of members of the Taylor and Frysinger families over three generations.

Dates: 1860-1960

Taylor-Thomson Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-203
Abstract

The Taylors and Thomsons were Quakers from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, who married into the Knight, Clothier, and Shoemaker families. This collection includes correspondence, copybooks and albums, account books, family photographs, and miscellaneous clippings. Of particular interest is a large collection of deeds and some late 19th and early 20th century travel diaries.

Dates: 1817-1955

Thomson-Eyre Family Albums

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-PA-039
Abstract

This collection consists of 5 photograph albums, dating from approximately 1860-1895, from Mary Sullivan Patterson, a Quaker historian and genealogist. The collection contains mostly of family member portaits.

Dates: 1860 - 1929

Updegraff Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1031
Abstract

Letters; diaries; genealogical material; land grants signed by Presidents John Tyler, Martin Van Buren, and Franklin Pierce; and other papers of the Updegraff family, mainly those of David B. Updegraff, which provide a picture of Quakerism in 19th-century Ohio.

Dates: 1810-1929; Majority of material found within 1810 - 1896

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Subject
Antislavery movements -- United States 3
Quakers -- Pennsylvania 3
Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century 2
Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 2
Quakers 2