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Darlington Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-296
Abstract
This collection contains the papers of the Darlington family of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and Woodstown, New Jersey. Quakers with strong ties to Swarthmore College, the family was involved in education, social and peace concerns, and businesses in the Philadelphia area. Charles J. Darlington (1894-1966) served as Clerk of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends during the reunification of the two Philadelphia Yearly Meetings. The collection includes family...
Dates:
1831-2012
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
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- Balderston, Ida Smedley (Ida Roberts Smedley Balderston), 1896-1993 1
- Brinton family 1
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- Darlington, Charles J. (Charles Joseph), 1894-1966 1
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- Sharples, Edith, 1743-1787 1
- Sharples, Joshua, 1747-1826 1
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- Sharpless, Susanna Kite, 1809-1844 1
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