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Fisher-Brinton family papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-332
Overview
The Fisher-Brinton collection contains the papers of an Irish-American and Pennsylvania family with roots in the earliest years of the Society of Friends. It includes correspondence, diaries, memoirs, photographs, scrapbooks, and other materials that reflect family and Quaker concerns, and, in particular, the Conservative branch of the Society of Friends. Abraham Fisher (1823-1909) was a member of a prominent Quaker family of Youghal County, Ireland. In 1871, he assumed a position as...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1846 - 2020; 1764 - 2020
Emily Howland Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-066
Overview
Emily Howland (1827-1929) was a Quaker humanitarian and educator who is particularly known for her work with formerly-enslaved African Americans in Virginia during and after the American Civil War. A birthright Friend, Emily Howland was the only daughter of Slocum and Hannah (Tallcot) Howland of Sherwood, N.Y. She was educated locally and for a brief period in Philadelphia, and then moved to Washington, D.C. in 1857 to teach at the Miner School for Freedmen. During the war she worked at a...
Dates:
1763-1929
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- Women authors, American -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Correspondence 1
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- Alsop, John , b.1813 1
- Brinton family 1
- Brinton, David, 1864-1945 1
- Brinton, Eleanor Fisher, 1868-1958 1
- Brinton, Joseph, 1828-1917 1
- Brinton, Mary H. (Mary Howland), 1833-1870 1
- Brinton, William Fisher, 1909-2008 1
- Fisher family 1
- Fisher, Abraham, 1823-1909 1
- Fisher, Sarah Wright, 1822-1886 1
- Fisher, Susanna G., 1865-1956 1
- Gould, Thomas B., 1813-1856 1
- Hopkins, Mary Brinton, 1831-1926 1
- Howland, Benjamin, 1837-1882 1
- Howland, David P., 1809-1852 1
- Howland, Emily, 1827-1929 1
- Howland, Hannah T. (Hannah Tallcot), 1796-1867 1
- Howland, Slocum, 1794-1881 1
- Howland, William, 1823-1905 1
- New England Yearly Meeting of Friends 1
- Putnam, Caroline F., 1826-1917 1
- Scipio Executive Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1886-1924 : Scipio, N.Y.) 1
- Scipio Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1886 : Scipio, N.Y.) 1
- Sherwood Select School (Sherwood, N.Y.) 1
- Strange, Edward, d. 1872 1
- Talcott family 1
- Tallcot, Joseph, 1768-1853 1
- Tallcot, Phebe F., 1799-1870 1
- Tallcot, Richard, b.1791 1
- Wilbur, John, 1774-1856 1 ∧ less
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