Lewis, Graceanna, 1821-1912
Person
Found in 5 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
Garrison, William Lloyd to Lewis, Grace Anna. Boston, Massachusetts, 1856 1mo 4
File — Box 28
Scope and Contents
Purchased from William Baldwin, 1938
Dates:
1856 1mo 4
Howard Malcolm Jenkins Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-074
Abstract
Howard Malcolm Jenkins (1842-1902), a birthright Quaker, was a scholar of Pennsylvania history and genealogy and published many books and articles based on his research. He was an active member of the Society of Friends, editor of the Friends Intelligencer, and served on the Board of Managers of Swarthmore College. The collection contains family papers and genealogical material on the Jenkins and Foulke families, correspondence of Howard M. Jenkins, and his publications and writings....
Dates:
1724-1904
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
Lewis, Graceanna (Media, Pa.) to Child, Lydia Maria., 1879 09mo 14
File — Box 31
Scope and Contents
The letter expresses admiration and appreciation for the influence that Child had on her life and members of her family especially concerning anti-slavery. Lewis had briefly met Child many years before at the home of Isaac T. Hopper. Purchase, Acc. 2002.005
Dates:
1879 09mo 14
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- Antislavery movements 2
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 2
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 2
- African Americans -- Education 1
- China -- Description and travel 1
- Naturalists -- United States 1
- Phrenology 1
- Publishers and publishing 1
- Quaker authors 1
- Quaker civic leaders 1
- Quaker scientists 1
- Quaker social reformers 1
- Quaker women 1
- Quakers -- Diaries 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County 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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