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Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-174
Overview
Abby Hopper Gibbons (1801-1893), daughter of Isaac T. Hopper (1771-1852), was an important figure in many of the reform movements of the mid- and late nineteenth centuries, especially abolition and her work with the Women's Prison Association and Isaac T. Hopper Home. In 1833, she married fellow Hicksite Quaker, James Sloan Gibbons (1810-1892), a member of the New York Yearly Meeting of Friends. Her daughter, Sarah Hopper Emerson, used some of this material as a basis for her 1897 biography...
Dates:
1824-1992 [bulk 1850-1892]
Isaac Hicks Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-197
Overview
Isaac Hicks (1767-1820) was a New York Quaker merchant. He established a large fleet of international trading vessels and financially helped to support his cousin, Edward Hicks (1780-1849), the Pennsylvania Quaker folk artist. Isaac Hicks traveled extensively with his cousin, Elias Hicks (1748-1830), the New York Quaker minister. The collection contains primarily the correspondence of Isaac Hicks, including letters from Isaac Hicks to his wife describing religious journeys taken with Elias...
Dates:
1798-ca. 1956 (bulk 1798-1818)
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- Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880 1
- Choate, Joseph Hodges, 1832-1917. 1
- Comly, John, 1773-1850 1
- Downing family 1
- Emerson family 1
- Emerson, Sarah Hopper, 1835- 1
- Fisher, Miers, 1748-1819 1
- Fisher, Samuel Rowland, 1745-1834 1
- Gibbons family 1
- Gibbons, Abby Hopper, 1801-1893 1
- Hicks family 1
- Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849 1
- Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 1
- Hicks, Isaac, 1767-1820 1
- Hopper family 1
- Isaac T. Hopper Home 1
- Marriott, Charles 1
- Morse, Lucy Gibbons, 1839-1936. 1
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite: 1828-1955) 1
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1
- Rotch, Thomas, 1767-1823. 1
- Rotch, William, 1734-1828 1
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