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Ash-Schofield Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-004
Overview
Samuel Shinn Ash and his wife, Sarah Jane Schofield Ash, were prominent Quakers, active in a variety of philanthropic activities, including anti-slavery, peace, temperance, women's rights, and education. Samuel Shinn Ash was apprenticed as an engineer and machinist and worked in manufacturing. This collection consists of family papers, manuscript letters and memorabilia, largely of a domestic nature. Includes some descriptions of Meetings and religious journeys, of the early struggles of...
Dates:
1796 - 1933; Majority of material found within 1833 - 1912
Sharpless-Reeve family papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-325
Overview
The collected papers of the Sharpless and Reeve family of New Jersey and Philadelphia. Much of the correspondence is between Edward Sharpless (1831-1894), a New Jersey Quaker minister, and his sister, Anna N. Sharpless, who married John Newbold Reeve in 1857. Their daughter, Mary Offley Reeve, worked as a school teacher when young and became involved in temperance and evangelical Christianity. She shared these interests, reflected in diaries and other writings, with Annie Way Smith, a...
Dates:
1852 - 1957
Smedley Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-319
Overview
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
Mira Sharpless Townsend Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-320
Overview
The collection contains papers of Mira Sharpless Townsend, a major Quaker social activist and reformer in Philadelphia. Mira Sharpless Townsend (1798-1859) was born in Philadelphia, attended Friends Select School, and in 1828 married Samuel Townsend (1800-1887). He was a member of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting by whom she had six children, only two surviving to adulthood: Emily Sharpless Townsend who married Powell Stackhouse and Clara Gordon Townsend, married William Penn Troth. During...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1815 - 1858; 1806 - 1910
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- Valentino, Carmen 2
- Ash, Samuel S. (Samuel Shinn), 1829-1911 1
- Ash, Sarah J. (Sarah Jane), 1835-1912 1
- Balderston, Ida Smedley (Ida Roberts Smedley Balderston), 1896-1993 1
- Child, Mary H. (Mary Hough), 1803-1874 1
- Jenkins, Mary Ash, 1875-1948 1
- Kite family 1
- Kite, Mary, 1793?-1861 1
- Pocono Manor (Pa.) 1
- Pocono Manor Association 1
- Reeve, Anna N. (Anna N. Sharpless Reeve), 1825-1891 1
- Reeve, Mary Offley, 1861-1947 1
- Rosine Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Schofield Normal and Industrial School (Aiken, S.C.) 1
- Schofield, Lydia A. (Lydia Ann), 1835-1909 1
- Schofield, Martha 1
- Schofield, Oliver W. (Oliver Wilson), 1806-1852 1
- Sharples, Edith, 1743-1787 1
- Sharples, Joshua, 1747-1826 1
- Sharpless family 1
- Sharpless, Aaron, 1809-1876 1
- Sharpless, Edward, 1831-1894 1
- Sharpless, Susanna Kite, 1809-1844 1
- Smedley family 1
- Smedley, Elizabeth Sharpless, 1842-1924 1
- Smedley, Emma, 1868-1944 1
- Smedley, Walter, 1862-1939 1
- Smith, Annie Way, 1867-1938 1
- Townsend, Mira Sharpless, 1798-1859 1
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