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Foster-Meyers Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-221
Overview
Contains the papers of the Foster Family, a Wilburite New England Quaker family of Rhode Island, and the Meyers Family, conservative Orthodox Quakers of the Midwest. The families were united in 1924 by the marriage of Henry Cope Foster (1895-1987) of Warwick, Rhode Island, and Thyra Jane Meyers (1898-1984), born in West Branch, Iowa. The collection contains extensive personal correspondence of five generations of the Foster and Meyers families, school materials, diaries, writings,...
Dates:
1765-2006
Sharpless Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-040
Overview
The collection represents two branches of the Sharpless family of Pennsylvania descended from Joseph and Lydia (Lewis) Sharpless). It contains correspondence between extended Sharpless family relations including Sharpless, Hunn, Jones, Drinker families and journals of Joshua Sharpless, a Quaker minister who worked with Native Americans and visited Quaker meetings in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Canada. Correspondence covers various topics including the travels of women ministers, yellow...
Dates:
1792-1892
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- Coope, Benjamin, 1765-1845 1
- Coope, Rachel, 1771-1807 1
- Dillwyn, George, 1738-1820 1
- Foster family 1
- Foster, Elizabeth, 1888-1980 1
- Foster, Henry C. (Henry Cope), 1895-1987 1
- Foster, Horace B. (Horace Bragg), 1850-1933 1
- Foster, John Henry, -1926 1
- Foster, Mary C. (Mary Cope), 1854-1936 1
- Foster, Thyra Jane 1
- Friends Boarding School (Barnesville, Ohio) 1
- Hunn family 1
- Hunn, Ezekiel, 1841-1926 1
- Hunn, Lydia Jones Sharpless, 1818-1911 1
- Iowa Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends. Hickory Grove Quarterly Meeting 1
- Jones, Rebecca, 1739-1817 1
- Meyers family 1
- Meyers, Bernice L. (Bernice Lydia), 1896-1946 1
- Meyers, Joseph E. (Joseph Elkinton), 1858-1937 1
- Meyers, Mary W. (Mary Worthington), 1862-1925 1
- Muncy Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends) 1
- Nantucket Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Orthodox : 1845- 1867 : Nantucket, Mass.) 1
- New England Yearly Meeting of Friends 1
- Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative : 1854- ) 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 1
- Providence Monthly Meeting of Friends (Providence, R.I.) 1
- Savery, William, 1721 or 1722-1787 1
- Sharpless family 1
- Stillwater Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Wilburite : 1854- : Barnesville, Ohio) 1
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