SFHL/FHL/SC. Small Collections
Record Group Term
Identifier: SFHL/FHL/SC
This record group includes small collections that are less than a box-worth of material.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Atkinson family scrapbook
Collection — Othertype SC-166
Identifier: SFHL-SC-166
Abstract
Includes Westtown mensuration book, 1835, with newspaper clippings glued in, 1889-1893 & n.d. Also assorted newspaper clippings concerning the Twining, Atkinson, and Smith families, the Carlisle Indian School, Quakers in Bucks County (Pa.), Bucks County history, the Molloy family, and Friends' schools. Obituaries of note in this folder are Isaiah Quinby, 1716-1807; Eleanor Mabel Malloy, 1883-1908; Miranda Doan Baker, d. 1900; Mary B. Stradling, d. 1899; Abram R. Vail, d. 1899; Marcie A....
Dates:
1804, 1835-ca. 1935
Smith family correspondence
Collection — Othertype SC-133
Identifier: SFHL-SC-133
Abstract
The collection contains family correspondence, most received by Ebenezer R. Smith, a Quaker of New York State and Iowa. Of interest is an unsent letter to Orson Squire Fowler, phrenologist and radical author, in which Ebenezer Smith expresses interest in taking Fowler's courses in order to pursue a career as lecturer and phrenologist. Letters from his parents, Barak and Mary Smith, of Springdale, Iowa, and other relations mention farm life and family concerns.
Dates:
1852-1878
Smyth family papers
Collection — Othertype SC-121
Identifier: SFHL-SC-121
Abstract
This collection includes letters between David Smyth and his brothers Thomas and John, regarding business and family news. Also included are notes on the Smyth family genealogy and on the Welsh tract.
Dates:
1810-1819
