Parrish, Dillwyn, 1809-1886
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Asa M. Janney family papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-310
Overview
The collection consists of correspondence and other papers of the Virginia Quaker family of Asa M. Janney. The letters contain family news and note Quaker concerns and activities. Of special interest are letters from Asa's older brother, Samuel M. Janney, noted Quaker minister, author and abolitionist. Also included are an account book of Janney's Forest Mills flour mill, 1860-1862; a Swarthmore College student notebook kept by his grandson, Thomas Janney Brown; and a notebook of...
Dates:
1831 - 1950
Samuel M. Janney Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-183
Overview
Samuel McPherson Janney was a Virginia Quaker minister, author, educator, and reformer. In 1839 he opened a boarding school for girls in Loudoun County. He traveled widely in the ministry, meeting with other denominations as well as being immersed in the contemporary issues facing the Society of Friends. Among his activities were establishing schools for African Americans and women, creating public schools in Virginia, and the abolition of slavery. In 1869 he was appointed Superintendent of...
Dates:
1815-1880
Price family papers
Collection — Othertype SC-101
Identifier: SFHL-SC-101
Abstract
This collection includes letters of Benjamin and Jane Price, among their family and with other Quakers. Also included are letters received by Benjamin's brother Eli K. Price regarding his legal practice, and by Benjamin's daughter-in-law Lydia H. Price, regarding family news. Bound volumes of letters record the correspondence of Benjamin and Jane Price while one or the other travelled in Quaker ministry. Of particular interest are : letters of Edward Hicks, regarding the Hicksite controversy...
Dates:
1809-1878
Filtered By
- Subject: Society of Friends -- Hicksite separation X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Quakers -- Virginia 2
- Abolitionists 1
- Antislavery movements 1
- Baal (Canaanite deity) 1
- Church controversies -- Society of Friends 1
- Church work with Indians -- Society of Friends 1
- Congregational Friends 1
- Freed persons -- Virginia 1
- Freed persons -- Washington (D.C.) 1
- Hicksites -- 19th century 1
- Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1869-1934 1
- Indians of North America -- Missions 1
- Lay ministry -- Society of Friends 1
- Quaker authors 1
- Quakers -- Correspondence 1
- Quakers -- Education 1
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 1
- Quakers -- Virginia -- Diaries 1
- Quakers -- Virginia -- Loudoun County 1
- Sermons, American 1
- Slavery -- United States 1
- Social reformers -- 19th century 1
- Society of Friends -- Antislavery movement 1
- Society of Friends -- History 1
- Society of Friends -- Indian affairs 1
- Society of Friends -- Sermons 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Quakers 1
- Universities and colleges -- Pennsylvania -- Swarthmore 1
- Women -- Diaries 1
- account books 1 + ∧ less
∨ more
