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Cope-Evans Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1170
Abstract

Letters (with accompanying poetry, acrostics, drawings, clippings, etc.), marriage certificates, photographs, friendship book, estate related papers, account books, and computer disks. Primarily letters of the closely related Quaker families of Cope and Evans of Germantown (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); other families include Brown, Drinker, and Haines.

Dates: 1732-1911

Hallowell-Stabler Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-057
Abstract The Hallowell and Stabler families were Quakers mainly of Sandy Spring, Maryland. James S. Hallowell was a noted educator, and Edward Stabler was the postmaster of Sandy Spring. The collection illustrates the life of a 19th century Quaker family in Alexandria, Virginia, Washington, D.C., Sandy Spring, Maryland, and Philadelphia, where several relatives resided. While emphasizing family affairs and domestic life, these papers contain material of interest on education, farm life, observations...
Dates: 1811-1946

Samuel M. Janney Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-183
Abstract Samuel McPherson Janney was a Virginia Quaker minister, author, educator, and reformer. In 1839 he opened a boarding school for girls in Loudoun County. He traveled widely in the ministry, meeting with other denominations as well as being immersed in the contemporary issues facing the Society of Friends. Among his activities were establishing schools for African Americans and women, creating public schools in Virginia, and the abolition of slavery. In 1869 he was appointed Superintendent of...
Dates: 1815-1880

Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon Schlesinger Library Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-124
Abstract Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon (1890-1979) was born into an extended Quaker family who lived for generations in Clarke and Loudon counties, Virginia. She moved beyond the Virginia Quaker community to a career in the women's movement, first as a campaigner for women's suffrage (1917-1920), then as an educator and political activist in Virginia (1920-1928) and finally as a research economist for the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor (1928-1956). During her retirement years, Pidgeon became...
Dates: 1906-1979

Thomas R. Smith papers

 Collection — othertype: SC-120
Identifier: SFHL-SC-120
Abstract

This collection includes the exercise book of Thomas R. Smith and a list of losses he sustained during the Civil War. Also included is a letter from J. Russell Smith, his son, explaining provenance of the collection.

Dates: 1849-1864

Winston-Clark Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1165
Abstract

Approximately 500 letters (also a few clippings, poems and other items) of the related Clark and Winston families of Virginia and Indiana. Letters discuss family and friends, the small schools that many members of these families began in the Midwest, as well as comments on politics, slavery, religion, education, the Civil War and friends/family fighting in the Confederate army, and other topics.

Dates: 1814-1900

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Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 4
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Health 2
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Quakers -- Social life and customs 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
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clippings (information artifacts) 2
letters (correspondence) 2
African American youth -- Education -- Pennsylvania 1
African American youth -- Education -- Southern States 1
Americans -- Travel -- England -- History -- 19th century 1
Antislavery movements 1
Business ethics 1
Church controversies -- Society of Friends 1
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Names
Hallowell, Benjamin, 1799-1877 2
Alexandria Boarding School (Alexandria, Va.) 1
Bennett, William, 1804-1873 1
Brown family 1
Brown, Gould 1
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Bush, Annie Hallowell, 1849-1930 1
Carmalt, Caleb 1
Clark family 1
Clark, Edward M. 1
Clark, Lucy S. 1
Comly, John, 1773-1850 1
Cope family 1
Cope, Alexis T., 1850-1883 1
Cope, Alfred 1
Cope, Anna Stewardson 1
Cope, Caleb 1
Cope, Clementine 1
Cope, Elizabeth Stewardson 1
Cope, Francis Reeve, 1821- 1
Cope, Henry 1
Cope, Thomas Pim 1
Cope, William D. (William Drinker) 1
Cox, John, approximately 1754-1847 1
Dorsey, William, 1811-1874 1
Dugdale, Joseph A., 1810-1896 1
Evans family 1
Evans, Jonathan, 1843-1911 1
Evans, Rachel Reeve Cope 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Foster, Mary C. (Mary Cope), 1854-1936 1
Foulke, William Dudley, 1848-1935 1
Garrett family 1
Griscom, Samuel S., 1802-1878 1
Haines family 1
Hallowell family 1
Hallowell, Alice 1
Hallowell, Caleb S. (Caleb Shreve), 1818-1870 1
Hallowell, Edward S., 1847-1866 1
Hallowell, James B. (James Bird), 1854-1906 1
Hallowell, James, 1821-1886 1
Hallowell, Margaret S. (Margaret Stabler), 1824-1900 1
Hartshorne family 1
Haverford College 1
Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852 1
Hunt, Uriah, 1796?-1967 1
Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835 1
Jackson, John, 1809-1855 1
Janney family 1
Janney, Elizabeth, 1802-1893 1
Janney, Joseph, 1800-1866 1
Janney, Samuel M. (Samuel Mcpherson), 1801-1880 1
Jewett, Tacy M. 1
Johnson, Jane 1
Jones, Horatio Gates, 1822-1893 1
Macy, William H., 1805-1887 1
Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon (1890-1979) 1
McClintock, Thomas, 1792?-1876 1
Parrish, Dillwyn, 1809-1886 1
Parrish, Edward, 1822-1872 1
Quimby, Daniel 1
Rhoads, James E. (James Evans), 1828-1895 1
Rhoads, Samuel, 1806-1868 1
Saunders, John, 1814-1891 1
Simpson, John, 1739-1811 1
Smith, J. Russell (Joseph Russell), 1874-1966 1
Smith, Thomas Russell, 1832-1914 1
Stabler family 1
Stabler, E. (Edward), 1794-1883 1
Stokes family 1
Taylor, Israel, 1782-1850 1
Thomas, Philip E. (Philip Evan), 1776-1861 1
Thomas, Philip W. 1
Truman, George 1
United States. Post Office Department 1
Western Yearly Meeting of Friends (1877- : Plainfield, Ind.) 1
Westtown Boarding School 1
Wharton, Deborah Fisher, 1795-1888 1
White, Barclay, 1821-1903 1
Winston family 1
Wistar family 1
Yarnall family 1
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