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Scope and Contents Photocopy of a typescript. Nolan (1840-1893) was the first husband of Maria Fisher (1851-1939], the eldest of the Fisher children. He was also Irish by birth and met the family in Argentina where he had worked in various jobs and became a manager at the Colony. He left Argentina at the same time as the Fishers and eventually came to North Carolina to work for the railroad and lumber company. He joined the Society of Friends meeting a Piney Woods, He and Maria married in 1877. Susanna...

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Typed extracts. William (1859-1885) had moved to Pennsylvania where he started a plant nursery. He was visiting family in North Carolina where he died, probably from tuberculosis.

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Tydped carbon copies of rhyming letter sent between the siblings, transcript by Susanna G. Fisher

Scope and Contents Hard bound volume contains autographs and entries written for Sarah. Sarah M. Fisher (1856-1945) married Frederic White in 1899 and was a Quaker minister. Her youngest sister Eleanor later added a brief history of the family and her (Eleanor's) life before her marriage in 1901. Eleanor recounted the family's move to Malvern, Pennsylvania, in 1898 where she met the Brinton relatives and married David Brinton on 9 month 26. In 1950 when she was bedridden Eleanor wrote a short addition...

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An informal history of the family of her mother, Sarah Wright, with an affectionate recollection of her mother. The Wrights were early members of the Society of Friends in Ireland. Also photocopy of handwritten copy of family history by Samuel Wright (1820-1898).

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Includes typed copy of a newspaper account of the wedding of Anna and Charles Grimshaw in 1878; excerpt of a letter dated 5 month 1897 from Sarah M. Fisher describing the barn fire in North Carolina; consolidated chronology of the Fisher family from 1850 to 1945.

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Susanna Georgina Fisher (1865-1956) was an editor and writer and served as an Elder in Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of the Western District. Carbons and mimeographed short stories and copy of her published book, A Child's Story of Jesus' Friends, signed by author for her sister, Eleanor Brinton. [2nd copy to stacks. Photos enclosed]

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Washington Railroad and Lumber Company, an English investment company, to Abraham Fisher