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 339 Collections and/or Records:
Patricia Loring papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-316
Abstract
Patricia Loring was a Quaker author, teacher, and retreat leader, most active in her related work in the 1980s and 1990s. She was the author of a widely read Quaker spiritual guide, Listening Spirituality, vols. 1 and 2. For eight years her ministry was supported by Bethesda Friends Meeting, Bethesda, Maryland.
This collection includes a variety of Patricia Loring's papers, largely beginning when she joined the Religious Society of Friends. Much of the collection consists of papers from...
Dates:
1982 - 2015
Edwin C. Tyson Research Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-314
Abstract
The collection contains research and writings concerning the history of Menallen Monthly Meeting, research correspondence, Tyson family genealogical research, and some Meeting correspondence assembled by Edwin C. Tyson before his death in 1945. It includes his correspondence with genealogists and local historians regarding Quaker families and property in Adams and York Counties, Pennsylvania.
Dates:
1898 - 1945; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1945
Robert Bryan Michener and Edith Riner Michener. Kenya correspondence
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-317
Abstract
The collection contains the correspondence of Robert Bryan Michener and Edith Riner Michener written while serving as Quaker missionaries in Kenya, East Africa, in the 1930s. Working under the auspices of the American Friends African Mission, a program of the Five Years Meeting, R. Bryan Michener served as a physician at the hospital in Kaimosi and then principal of the Boys’ School. Edith Michener first taught English at the Boys’ School and then organized the Girls’ Boarding School. ...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1930 - 1970; 1920 - 1984
Parke Family journals
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-318
Abstract
The collection contains diaries and daybooks of Dr. Thomas E. Parke and his wife, Mary Bacon Parke, of Downingtown, Pennsylvania. Very rich in detail, they reflect the life and activities of 20th century Quakers, active in the Society of Friends, business, and philanthropic activities.
Dates:
1896 - 1927
Hunn-Karsner Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-322
Abstract
The collection contains correspondence, writings, and other papers of the family of Ezekiel Hunn and Lydia Jones Sharpless Hunn, Philadelphia and Delaware Quakers. The papers were compiled by their granddaughter Katherine Hunn Karsner (1899-1993). She was a Philadelphia Quaker minister and married Joseph Reed Karsner in 1930 under the care of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting (Hicksite). The bulk of the collection is composed of correspondence from their daughter, Mary Ann Karsner Kegler...
Dates:
1809 - 1985; Majority of material found within 1947 - 1974
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
George A. Hoadley Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-327
Abstract
The collection contains the papers of George A. Hoadley, long-time professor of physics at Swarthmore College and secretary of the Franklin Institute, as well as papers of his extended family. Of particular interest are diaries kept by his second wife's parents, Carrie B. Kilgore and Damon Y. Kilgore, both attorneys and reformers. George Hoadley's correspondence with his children include mention of people and events in the Borough of Swarthmore and Swarthmore College. A founder of the...
Dates:
1850 - 1957
Fisher-Brinton family papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-332
Abstract
The Fisher-Brinton collection contains the papers of an Irish-American and Pennsylvania family with roots in the earliest years of the Society of Friends. It includes correspondence, diaries, memoirs, photographs, scrapbooks, and other materials that reflect family and Quaker concerns, and, in particular, the Conservative branch of the Society of Friends. Abraham Fisher (1823-1909) was a member of a prominent Quaker family of Youghal County, Ireland. In 1871, he assumed a position as...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1846 - 2020; 1764 - 2020
Oliver Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-334
Abstract
The collection contains the papers of the family of Wendell French Oliver, New England and Pennsylvania Wilburite Quakers. Gamaliel Wallis Oliver (1772-1849) was a successful Lynn, Massachusetts, shoe manufacturer who married Charlotte Breed in 1807. Two grandsons, Wendell French Oliver and William Theodore Oliver, were conscientious objectors in WWI and served with the AFSC in European Reconstruction. The collection includes journals, photographs, and related papers of Wendell, W....
Dates:
1706 - 2018; Majority of material found within 1830 - 1960
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
