Box 10

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Sorted from Brinton photographs. Includes 1930s anti-war postcards, postcards of memorials, postcard series of Lover's Lane, Saint Jo by Eugene Field, miscellaneous greeting cards, and photo of Bill Brinton on bike in England/Greeting for New Year 1938. Also an envelope of "Old Money."

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Guide published by Friend General Conference which listed the home of ted the Brintons in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania

Scope and Contents Photocopies of her typed autobiography with notes and short stories. Louise Irwin was born in 1915 and graduated from Smith College in 1938. She taught briefly at Germantown Friends School and then attended University of Virginia Law School, one of three women in a class of 300. She graduated in 1943 and served as lead counsel to Secretary of Welfare, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. She married Willim F.Brinton in 1949, raised five children, and worked part-time as a legal research...

Scope and Contents Typed photocopy, spiral bound with commentary. He was the son of John Irwin, Jr. (1782-1859) who married Mary Fisher under the care of Muncy Monthly Meeting in 1802. With his family, he accompanied the Fishers to Bald Eagle Valley, Centre County, Pennsylvania. He was a birthright Quaker who became a Methodist after his marriage. Also includes the autobiography of his brother Ellis Irwin (1805-1902). A note that the letters had been property of Louise Irwin Brinton and were transcribed and...

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Compiled by John Robert Irwin and John Lewis Irwin

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Margaret Fisher Brinton Collinson, the daughter of William Fisher Brinton and Louise Irwin Brinton, attended a small Irish Quaker boarding school, Grammar School Drogheda, during her Junior Year Abroad. Her letters reflect a very different academic experience, far from home and technology, located only thirty miles from the Border shortly before "The Troubles" erupted.

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Letters to family describe school, travels, and reactions to turbulent events in the U.S.

Scope and Contents Margaret Brinton Collinson compiled the Fisher-Brinton Family Papers and included her handwritten notess that add context and biographical information. She explained that she and her parents lived with her grandmother, Eleanor Fisher Brinton, in West Chester after they moved from Glenrose. Her great-aunt Susanna G. Fisher lived nearby. Family stories and heirlooms were preserved by the generations. Among the relics is the 1728 plate [removed to FHL Relics] which had belonged to her...

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Sketches of farm life at Joseph Brinton's Spring Hope Farm, Glenrose, Pennsylvania, where Margaret Brinton, later Collinson, spent weekends as a child.