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:
Underwood Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-153
Overview
The Underwood family was a Quaker family, of Millville, Pennsylvania, and Woodbury, New Jersey. The collection contains chiefly papers of Warner Underwood (1851-1941), Quaker businessman and philanthropist, and his wife, Tamar Eliza John Underwood (1848-1932), including personal correspondence, financial and legal records (1876) relating to a sawmill in Centre County, Pa., student copy work, memorabilia, and historical material relating to Millville.
Dates:
1833-1927
Walker-Conard-Cowgill Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-155
Overview
The Walkers, Conard, and Cowgills were Quaker families of Frederick County, Virginia, and Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The collections contains papers of the Walker and allied Coates, Cowgill, and Conard families, including general correspondence (1792-1912), Civil War correspondence and diaries (1893-1900) of Union soldier Edward B. Conard (ca. 1844-1917), diaries (1896-1898) of Jacob Walker, ledger (1847-1887) of David Walker (1818-1889), journals, financial and legal papers,...
Dates:
1699-1912 [bulk 1792-1912]
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- Quakers -- Social life and customs 6
- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 5
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Sources 3
- Quakers -- 19th century -- Diaries 3
- Quakers -- Diaries 3
- genealogies (histories) 3
- Montgomery County (Pa.) -- History -- Sources 2
- Pennsylvania -- Genealogy 2
- Quaker philanthropists 2
- Quakers -- 20th century -- Diaries 2
- Quakers -- Education 2
- Quakers -- Great Britain 2
- Quakers -- History 2
- Quakers -- New York (State) 2
- Quakers -- Virginia 2
- diaries 2
- Albion (Orleans County, N.Y.) 1
- American fiction 1
- American periodicals 1
- Antislavery movements -- United States 1
- Archivists -- Pennsylvania 1
- Authors, American -- 20th century 1
- Beacon (Periodical) 1
- Boarding schools -- Pennsylvania 1
- Bucks County (Pa.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Burial -- Pennsylvania 1
- Businessmen -- United States 1
- Charities -- Pennsylvania 1
- Chester (Pa.) -- Quakers 1
- Chester County (Pa.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Children -- Religious aspects -- Periodicals 1
- Children's literature -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
- Children's literature -- Religious aspects 1
- Children's periodicals 1
- Civic leaders -- Pennsylvania 1
- College students -- Pennsylvania 1
- Debt -- Pennsylvania 1
- Education -- Pennsylvania 1
- Europe -- Description and travel -- 19th century 1
- Farmers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Frederick County (Va.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Free produce movement 1
- Genealogists -- Pennsylvania 1
- Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Housewives -- Pennsylvania 1
- Illustrators -- United States 1
- Iron and steel workers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Iron-works -- Pennsylvania 1
- Land use -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Lay ministry -- Pennsylvania 1
- Lay ministry -- Society of Friends 1
- Librarian exchange programs 1
- Librarians -- Pennsylvania 1
- Libraries -- England -- London 1
- Libraries -- Great Britain 1
- Libraries -- Pennsylvania 1
- Libraries -- Pennsylvania -- Swarthmore 1
- Lumber trade -- Pennsylvania 1
- Lumber trade -- Pennsylvania -- Centre County 1
- Middletown (Delaware County, Pa. : Township) 1
- Millville (Columbia County, Pa.) -- History -- Sources 1
- New Jersey -- History -- Sources 1
- Pennsylvania -- Periodicals 1
- Periodical editors -- Pennsylvania 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Periodicals 1
- Philanthropists -- United States 1
- Publishers and publishing -- Pennsylvania 1
- Quaker horticulturalists 1
- Quaker women -- Education 1
- Quaker women -- Great Britain 1
- Quaker women -- New Jersey 1
- Quakers -- Ireland 1
- Quakers -- New England 1
- Quakers -- New Jersey 1
- Quakers -- North Carolina 1
- Quakers -- Ohio 1
- Quakers -- Periodicals 1
- Quakers -- Societies, etc. 1
- Quakers -- Tennessee 1
- Real property -- Pennsylvania 1
- Real property -- Pennsylvania -- Pike County 1
- Religious education of children 1
- Religious newspapers and periodicals -- United States 1
- Roads -- Pennsylvania 1
- Sawmills -- Pennsylvania 1
- Scattered Seeds (Periodical) 1
- Schools -- Pennsylvania 1
- Schools -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County 1
- Scientific illustrators -- United States 1
- Slave labor -- United States 1
- Slavery -- United States 1
- Slavery and the church -- Society of Friends 1
- Society of Friends -- Charities 1
- Society of Friends -- Education 1
- Society of Friends -- Education -- Pennsylvania 1
- Society of Friends -- Great Britain 1
- Society of Friends -- History 1
- Society of Friends -- Ireland 1 + ∧ less
- Names
- Westtown Boarding School 2
- American Unitarian Association 1
- Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 1
- Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 1
- Churchman, John, 1753-1805 1
- Coates family 1
- Coates, Benjamin, 1808-1887 1
- Conard family 1
- Conard, Edward B., ca. 1844-1917 1
- Cowgill family 1
- Cowgill, Eliza Coates 1
- Douglass, Sarah Mapps, 1806-1882 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
- Florence E. Taylor 1
- Forster, Josiah, 1782-1870 1
- Fothergill, Samuel 1
- Gibbons, Abby Hopper, 1801-1893 1
- Gilbert family 1
- Gilbert, Dora Anne, 1869-1864 1
- Grimke, Sarah Moore, 1792-1873 1
- Haines family 1
- Haines, Elizabeth Shinn, 1823-1883 1
- Hallowell family 1
- Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1825-1911 1
- Harris, Dorothy G. (Dorothy Gladden), 1902-1972 1
- Heacock family 1
- Heacock, Eliza 1
- Heacock, Elizabeth Walker 1
- Heacock, Jane 1
- Heacock, Joseph, 1800-1883 1
- Heacock, Joseph, 1846-1918 1
- Heacock, Martha 1
- Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852 1
- Hunn family 1
- Hunn, Lydia Jones Sharpless, 1818-1911 1
- Kite, Thomas, 1785-1845 1
- Longstreth family 1
- Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880 1
- Paxson, Alice Hall , 1868-1955 1
- Penrose family 1
- Purvis, Robert, 1810-1898 1
- Richland Turnpike or Plank Road Company 1
- Sharpless family 1
- Shillitoe, Thomas, 1754-1836 1
- Shinn family 1
- Shoemaker family 1
- Shoemaker, Mary Williams, 1861-1953 1
- Shoemaker, Thomas (Thomas Howard), 1851-1936 1
- Sterling family 1
- Still, William, 1821-1902 1
- Strickland family 1
- Swarthmore College 1
- Swarthmore College. Class of 1893 1
- Taylor family 1
- Taylor, Charles M. (Charles Maus), 1817-1893 1
- Taylor, Emily H. (Emily Hunt) 1
- Taylor, Israel, 1782-1850 1
- Trego family 1
- Tuke, Esther, 1727-1794 1
- Underwood family 1
- Underwood, Tamar Eliza John, 1848-1932 1
- Underwood, Warner, 1851-1941 1
- Walker family 1
- Walker, David, 1818-1889 1
- Walker, Eliza C. Conard 1
- Walker, Jacob 1
- Walker-Conard-Cowgill family 1
- Wilbur, John, 1774-1856 1 + ∧ less
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