SFHL/FHL/RG5. Family and Personal Papers
Record Group Term
Identifier: SFHL/FHL/RG5
The largest category of collections in Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College is that of Personal and Family Papers. These materials include correspondence, journals and diaries, and property records of Quaker individuals and family groups they date from the mid 17th century to the present.
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
S. Francis Nicholson Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-275
Overview
S. Francis Nicholson was a prominent Quaker investment banker, longtime officer of Provident National Bank, Philadelphia, and active in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, A.F.S.C., and Friends Fiduciary Corporation. The collection contains correspondence, financial records, memorabilia, and other papers reflecting his career and life with his wife, Evelyn Haworth Nicholson.
Dates:
1900-2005
Smedley Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-319
Overview
The collection contains correspondence, journals and other writings, business and legal papers, and miscellaneous items of the Smedley family, a large and prominent Quaker family of Penncrest Farm, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The family was related to the Kite and Sharples/Sharpless families of Chester and Delaware Counties. The papers include significant correspondence of the Kite family, especially Thomas Kite (1785-1845) and Mary Kite (1792-1861), both prominent...
Dates:
1751 - 1996; Majority of material found within 1821 - 1950
Subgroups
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- Names: Westtown Boarding School X
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- Subject
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 9
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 6
- Lay ministry -- Society of Friends 3
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania 3
- Lay ministry -- Pennsylvania 2
- Middletown (Delaware County, Pa. : Township) 2
- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 2
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Sources 2
- Quaker businesspeople 2
- Quaker women -- Pennsylvania 2
- Quakers -- Delaware 2
- Quakers -- Diaries 2
- Quakers -- Ohio 2
- Quakers -- Social service 2
- Society of Friends -- Ohio 2
- Agriculture -- Pennsylvania -- Delaware County 1
- Agriculture -- Pennsylvania -- History 1
- Agriculture -- Rhode Island 1
- Antislavery movements -- United States 1
- Architects -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Boarding schools -- Pennsylvania 1
- Chester County (Pa.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Conservative Quakers 1
- Dairy farmers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Delaware County (Pa.) -- Genealogy 1
- Delaware County (Pa.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Ercildoun (Pa.) 1
- Europe -- Description and travel -- 19th century 1
- Free produce movement 1
- Indians of North America -- Education 1
- Indians of North America -- New York (State) 1
- Indians of North America -- Nova Scotia 1
- Pennsylvania -- Genealogy 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Genealogy 1
- Primitive Quakers 1
- Quaker architects 1
- Quaker farmers 1
- Quaker women 1
- Quaker women -- Diaries 1
- Quakers -- 18th century -- Diaries 1
- Quakers -- 19th century -- Diaries 1
- Quakers -- Anecdotes 1
- Quakers -- Austria 1
- Quakers -- Biography 1
- Quakers -- Conduct of life 1
- Quakers -- Costume 1
- Quakers -- Great Britain 1
- Quakers -- Great Britain -- Yorkshire 1
- Quakers -- Indiana 1
- Quakers -- Iowa 1
- Quakers -- Ireland 1
- Quakers -- New England 1
- Quakers -- New York (State) 1
- Quakers -- North Carolina 1
- Quakers -- Nova Scotia 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Education 1
- Quakers -- Rhode Island 1
- Quakers -- Suffrage 1
- Quakers -- Tennessee 1
- Quakers -- Travel 1
- Quakers -- Virginia 1
- Quakers -- Virginia -- Frederick County 1
- Quakers -- Virginia -- Hopewell 1
- Reconstruction (1914–1939) -- Austria 1
- Reconstruction (1914–1939) -- France 1
- Rose Valley (Pa.) 1
- Schools -- Pennsylvania 1
- Schools -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County 1
- Seneca Indians -- Education 1
- Slave labor -- United States 1
- Slavery -- United States 1
- Slavery and the church -- Society of Friends 1
- Smedley family 1
- Society of Friends -- Charities 1
- Society of Friends -- Education -- Pennsylvania 1
- Society of Friends -- Great Britain 1
- Society of Friends -- Hicksite separation 1
- Society of Friends -- History 1
- Society of Friends -- Indian affairs 1
- Society of Friends -- Indiana 1
- Society of Friends -- Ireland 1
- Society of Friends -- New England 1
- Society of Friends -- New York (State) 1
- Society of Friends -- North Carolina 1
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County 1
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- Lancaster County 1
- Society of Friends -- Rhode Island 1
- Society of Friends -- Rhode Island -- Newport 1
- Society of Friends -- Tennessee 1
- Society of Friends -- Virginia 1
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 1
- Society of Friends -- Wilburite controversy 1
- Teachers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Temperance 1
- United States -- History -- Colonial period -- ca. 1600-1775 1
- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 1
- Voyages and travels -- 19th century 1
- Warwick (R.I.) 1
- West Grove (Pa.) -- Quakers 1
- Women and Peace -- History 1 + ∧ less
- Names
- American Friends Service Committee 2
- Hunn family 2
- Sharples, Edith, 1743-1787 2
- Sharples, Joshua, 1747-1826 2
- Sharpless family 2
- Swarthmore College 2
- Wilbur, John, 1774-1856 2
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 1
- Allen family 1
- Allen, Charles, 1776-1843 1
- Allen, George Briedenhart, 1804-1869 1
- Austin, Ebenezer, d. 1864 1
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
- Balderston, Ida Smedley (Ida Roberts Smedley Balderston), 1896-1993 1
- Baltimore Yearly Meeting Of Friends (Nottingham : 1854 1868) 1
- Baxter family 1
- Baxter, Mary, 1830-1918 1
- Baxter, William, 1824-1886 1
- Biddle family 1
- Biddle, Clement M. (Clement Miller), 1876-1959 1
- Biddle, Owen, 1737-1799 1
- Biddle, William Canby, 1864-1942 1
- Breidenhart family 1
- Brinton, Anna H. (Anna Howland), b. 1843 1
- Brinton, Charles, b. 1876 1
- Brinton, David, b. 1864 1
- Brinton, Elma, b. 1872 1
- Brinton, Gulielma C., 1794-1879 1
- Brinton, Jane Smith, b. 1874 1
- Brinton, Joseph, 1828-1917 1
- Brinton, Mary H. (Mary Howland), 1833-1870 1
- Brinton, Susanna, b. 1833 1
- Brinton, William, 1785-1878 1
- Brinton, William, b. 1869 1
- Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 1
- Buck, Mattie 1
- Buffington, Israel 1
- Campbell, Louise D. 1
- Casdorp family 1
- Chase, Abby L. 1
- Chase, Anna 1
- Chase, Levi 1
- Churchman, John, 1753-1805 1
- Coffin, Narcissa B. (Narcissa Battey), 1818-1892 1
- Conrad, Ellwood B. 1
- Cook, Martha G. 1
- Coope, Benjamin, 1765-1845 1
- Coope, Rachel, 1771-1807 1
- Dannett, Sylvia G. L, -1909 1
- Dingee, Jacob, d. 1919 1
- Doudna, Louisa M., 1818-1898 1
- Earlham College 1
- Emlen family 1
- Emlen, James, 1760-1798 1
- Emlen, James, 1792-1866 1
- Emlen, Samuel 1
- Emlen, Samuel, 1829-1920 1
- Emlen, Sarah Foulke Farquhar (Sarah Foulke Farquhar Emlen), 1787-1849 1
- Forster, Josiah, 1782-1870 1
- Foster family 1
- Foster, Elizabeth, 1888-1980 1
- Foster, Henry C. (Henry Cope), 1895-1987 1
- Foster, Horace B. (Horace Bragg), 1850-1933 1
- Foster, John Henry, -1926 1
- Foster, Mary C. (Mary Cope), 1854-1936 1
- Foster, Thyra Jane 1
- Fothergill, Samuel 1
- Friends Boarding School (Barnesville, Ohio) 1
- Friends Boarding School for Indian Children (Tunesassa, N.Y.) 1
- General Meeting of Men and Women Primitive Friends of Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey 1
- Gibbons family 1
- Gould, L.A. (Lydia Ann) 1
- Gould, Thomas B., 1813-1856 1
- Griffith family 1
- Griffith, Aaron H. , 1802-1877 1
- Haines, Anna P. (Anna Philips), 1849-1924 1
- Haines, Mary Elizabeth, 1886-1920 1
- Haines, T. Harvey (Thomas Harvey), b. 1871 1
- Haines, Zebedee, 1843-1923 1
- Hampton, William, b. 1826 1
- Harvard Business School 1
- Harvey, Cassandra B., 1825-1882 1
- Hazard, Rowland H. 1
- Hollingsworth, H. (Henry), 1737-1803 1
- Hopewell Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends) 1
- Hopkins, Mary B., b. 1831 1
- Howland, David P., 1809-1852 1
- Howland, J.W. (Joseph William), b. 1839 1
- Hubley family 1
- Hunn, John, 1818-1894 1
- Hunn, Lydia Jones Sharpless, 1818-1911 1
- Iowa Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends. Hickory Grove Quarterly Meeting 1
- Jacobs family 1
- James, Dorothy Biddle 1
- James, Ella C. 1
- Jenkins, Patience H. (Patience Hunn), 1805-1884 1
- Jones, Mary E. 1
- Jones, Peace, b. 1815 1
- Kite family 1 + ∧ less
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