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Smedley Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-319
Abstract
The collection contains correspondence, journals and other writings, business and legal papers, and miscellaneous items of the Smedley family, a large and prominent Quaker family of Penncrest Farm, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The family was related to the Kite and Sharples/Sharpless families of Chester and Delaware Counties. The papers include significant correspondence of the Kite family, especially Thomas Kite (1785-1845) and Mary Kite (1792-1861), both prominent...
Dates:
1751 - 1996; Majority of material found within 1821 - 1950
Smedley Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-PA-221
Abstract
The Smedley family in America is descended from a George Smedley, a Quaker, who arrived in Pennsylvania about 1682, purchasing property from William Penn in what is now Middletown Township, Delaware County. The collection represents the descendants of Thomas Smedley and his brother Edward G. Smedley. The property was purchased by a nephew, Walter Smedley, a well-known Philadelphia Quaker architect. His widow married C. Canby Balderston, a business executive. The family sold the...
Dates:
ca. 1875-1979
Smedley Family Scrapbook
Collection — othertype: MSS-066
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-066
Abstract
These manuscripts of the Smedley family, Quakers of Chester County, Pennsylvania, were collected by Mary (Green) Smedley in the early 20th century. The scrapbook contains primarily 18th century legal and property documents concerning Thomas Smedley (1688?-1758) of Willistown, Chester County, a member of Goshen Monthly Meeting, and his descendants, particularly George Smedley (d. 1783) and family. The scrapbook includes records relating to a property dispute between George Smedley and George...
Dates:
1700 - 1833
"Notes on Early Friends Attending Meetings"
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-131
Abstract
The beginning of the manuscript of Jeffrey Smedley, entitled "Notes on Early Friends Attending Meetings," was used to record financial transactions, but the majority of the volume describes testimony given by various Quakers at Meetings for worship, arranged chronologically. Many of the entries are related to Elias Hicks.
Dates:
1816-1843
Smiley family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1113
Abstract
In 1883, Quakers Albert Keith Smiley and his brother Daniel Smiley organized the first annual conference to discuss assistance to Native Americans at their estate at Lake Mohonk in New York state. These conferences were widely attended by specialists in various fields, as well as important officials. Only later were Native Americans represented. The concern to "uplift" was also directed at Filipino, Hawaiian, African American and Puerto Rican peoples, though attention at the conferences was...
Dates:
1885-1983; Majority of material found within 1885 - 1930
Keith Smiley letter
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-271
Abstract
Albert Keith Smiley (1910-2001), one of the family managers of the Mohonk Mountain House and active Quaker, writes to his cousin's son, Dave Smiley, about his faith and beliefs in the forms of Jesus Christ after attending a Friends Meeting.
Dates:
1983
Sarah Frances Smiley diaries
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-074
Abstract
Sarah Frances Smiley was a Quaker minister. Her diary entries describe Quaker meetings, ongoing struggles with her religious conviction, and her dedication to God.
Dates:
1857-1859
Sarah Frances Smiley signature album
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-05-009
Abstract
This collection is comprised of the single volume autograph book of Sarah Frances Smiley.
Dates:
1869-1870
S. F. Smiley notebooks
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-11-037
Scope and Content note
This collection is comprised of two volumes of the notebooks of S.F. Smiley. The notebooks essentially function as date books, and records places visited, goods purchased, and reading he or she did.
Dates:
1867-1886
Benjamin Hayes Smith diary
Collection
Identifier: HCS-003-002
Abstract
The diary covers Benjamin Hayes Smith’s time at Haverford and his expereinces during the American Civil War. Entries include informaiton on the Haverford Loganian Society (1856-1859), Haverford Euethean Association (1856-1859), the Haverford Athenaeum (1856-1859), and the Battle of Stones River (December 31, 1862), in Tennessee.
Dates:
1856-1863
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- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 19
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 19
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- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 18
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- Haverford College. Office of the President 15
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- Pickett, Clarence, 1884-1965 15
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 15
- Adelman, Seymour, 1906-1985 14
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- Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 14
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 14
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- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 12
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- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 11
- Pemberton, James, 1723-1809 11
- Sharpless family 11
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- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 11
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. International Office 11
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 10
- Bean, Joel, 1825-1914 10
- Drinker, Henry, 1734-1809 10
- Earlham College 10
- Elkinton, J. Passmore (Joseph Passmore), 1887-1971 10
- Kersey, Jesse, 1768-1845 10
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite: 1828-1955) 10
- Newton, Ray 10
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 10
- Sharpless, Isaac, 1848-1920 10
- Smith, Daniel B., 1792-1883 10
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