Box 2

Henry F. Shearman worked in various occupations including attorney and businessman. An 1877 letter to brother Isaac is written from a farm in Minnesota. In the late 1890s he wrote to sister Alice from Georgia and signed as H. F. Howland Russell. Later letters written to Alice and his grandson Howland care of his son-in-law John Donaldson, Long Island, from England.

John (1843-1929) married Emma Adams under the care of New York Monthly Meeting in 1865. He was in business as Shearman and Adams in NYC, later in Indianapolis. The letter of 1890 is to sister Mary with condolences for the death of her husband.

Isaac (1845-1891) married Sarah ('Susie") and lived in Philadelphia where he had a steam engines business.

To My dear sister, from New Bedford, MA. She writes that she had visited Mary Eliza in NJ where her husband, Thomas Kimber, was very feeble. Comments on family news, missionary to Ramallah

Hepsa Howland Leonard Shearman (1863-) was the daughter of Henry F. Shearman/aka Russell-Howland and his first wife, Mary. In 1882, she asked to live with her aunt Anna D. Shearman. Undated letter is from her sister Florence congratulating her on her engagement. Hepsa married John Donaldson on Sept. 9, 1891, and they lived at Richmond Hills, Long Island. Her aunt Alice Delano Shearman lived with them until her death in 1931.

Memorial for Thomas Kimber; receipts for tuition paid to Van Rennselaer Seminary, Burlington, NJ, 1877-1878, for Hepsa H. L. Shearman; etc.