Valentino, Carmen
Person
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Howland-Shearman Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-303
Abstract
The collection is composed of correspondence of the family of David Sands Shearman and his wife, Hepsa Hathaway Howland Shearman of New Bedford, Massachusetts, and Poughkeepsie, New York. The Shearman and Howlands were prominent New England Quaker merchant and whaling families, intertwined by business and marriage. Much of the correspondence is directed to Hepsa, largely from her children who pursued a range of careers. Early correspondence is with her husband Captain David Sands...
Dates:
1800 - 1916; Majority of material found within 1832 - 1899
Newbold-Fox Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-336
Abstract
The collection is composed largely of property and legal papers which descended in the Quaker Newbold and Fox families of Burlington County, New Jersey, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Newbolds were among the earliest settlers and prominent landowners in West Jersey. The Fox family of Philadelphia was descended from Justinian Fox who emigrated to America in 1685. In 1796, the family purchased a number of tracts of land in western Pennsylvania from the Commonwealth. A descendant,...
Dates:
1710 - 1960
Sharpless-Reeve family papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-325
Abstract
The collected papers of the Sharpless and Reeve family of New Jersey and Philadelphia. Much of the correspondence is between Edward Sharpless (1831-1894), a New Jersey Quaker minister, and his sister, Anna N. Sharpless, who married John Newbold Reeve in 1857. Their daughter, Mary Offley Reeve, worked as a school teacher when young and became involved in temperance and evangelical Christianity. She shared these interests, reflected in diaries and other writings, with Annie Way Smith, a...
Dates:
1852 - 1957
Stackhouse Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-306
Abstract
The Stackhouse family was a Pennsylvania and New Jersey Quaker family with roots in the earliest settlement of America. The papers include diaries, ledgers, correspondence and other family papers and voluminous genealogical research conducted by Powell Stackhouse, Jr. They were united by the descendants of two sons of Amos and Mary (Powell) Stackhouse who shared an interest in family history. Powell Stackhouse, Jr., (1827-1900) was a real estate lawyer and conveyancer who pursued a...
Dates:
1804 - 1951; Majority of material found within 1820-1916
Mira Sharpless Townsend Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-320
Abstract
The collection contains papers of Mira Sharpless Townsend, a major Quaker social activist and reformer in Philadelphia. Mira Sharpless Townsend (1798-1859) was born in Philadelphia, attended Friends Select School, and in 1828 married Samuel Townsend (1800-1887). He was a member of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting by whom she had six children, only two surviving to adulthood: Emily Sharpless Townsend who married Powell Stackhouse and Clara Gordon Townsend, married William Penn Troth. During...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1815 - 1858; 1806 - 1910
Anna Simpson White correspondence
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-335
Abstract
The collection contains the correspondence of Anna M. Simpson White (1866-1965), daughter of David and Tacie Satterthwaite Simpson of Langhorne, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She was a birthright member of Falls Monthly Meeting. In 1871 the family transferred to Middletown Monthly Meeting where in 1905 Anna married Ashton White, a local farmer. He died in 1911. The correspondence contains primarily informal letters received from family and friends with mention of family, Quaker meetings,...
Dates:
1868 - 1924
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- Lay ministry -- Society of Friends 2
- Quaker women -- Diaries 2
- Quakers -- Diaries 2
- Quakers -- New Jersey 2
- Abolitionists 1
- American poetry -- Quaker authors 1
- Antislavery movements -- Pennsylvania -- History 1
- Burlington County (N.J.) 1
- Burlington County (N.J.) -- Quakers 1
- Capital punishment 1
- Cedar Swamp -- Burlington County 1
- Church work with prostitutes 1
- Evangelical Quakers 1
- Evangelicalism 1
- Howland family 1
- Jewish women 1
- Land titles -- New Jersey 1
- New Jersey -- Burlington County -- Maps 1
- Pemberton (N.J. : Township) 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- Philadelphia County (Pa.) -- Genealogy 1
- Pine Barrens (N.J.) 1
- Poetry -- Women authors 1
- Prison reformers 1
- Quaker prison reformers 1
- Quaker women 1
- Quaker women -- 20th century 1
- Quaker women -- United States -- Diaries 1
- Quakers -- Antislavery movements 1
- Quakers -- Massachusetts -- New Bedford 1
- Quakers -- New York (State) -- Poughkeepsie 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Bucks County 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Social life and customs 1
- Sherman family 1
- Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century 1
- Society of Friends -- Hicksite separation 1
- Swamps New Jersey 1
- Temperance -- Pennsylvania -- Societies, etc. 1
- Temperance -- Societies, etc. 1
- Temperance and religion -- Society of Friends 1
- Whaling -- Massachusetts 1
- Women authors, American -- Diaries 1
- Women teachers -- Pennsylvania 1
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