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Sarah Wistar Rhoads family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1211
Abstract
The Sarah Wistar Rhoads family papers indicate strong relationships and family ties that spanned the 19th and 20th centuries. Sarah Wistar Rhoads (1839-1920) married William Gibbons Rhoads (1838-1880) on November 28, 1866. At that time, the Rhoads, Gibbons and Wistar families began corresponding, the result being an outstanding collection illustrating family support, friendship and love. These papers include correspondence, financial records, diaries and journals, memorabilia, classwork and...
Dates:
Bulk, 1824-1930 1824-1963; Majority of material found within 1824 - 1930
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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- Gibbons, Hannah, d. 1868 1
- Haverford College 1
- Potts, Ethel Rhoads, 1870-1962 1
- Rhoads family 1
- Rhoads, Anne Gibbons, 1809-1890 1
- Rhoads, Edward, 1841-1871 1
- Rhoads, Edward, 1873-1903 1
- Rhoads, Jane Gibbons, 1870-1897 1
- Rhoads, Jane Gibbons, d. 1860 1
- Rhoads, Lydia Wistar, b. 1868 1
- Rhoads, Samuel, 1806-1868 1
- Rhoads, Samuel, b. 1878 1
- Rhoads, Sarah Wistar, 1839-1920 1
- Rhoads, William Gibbons, Jr., 1838-1880 1
- Rhoads, William Gibbons, b. 1876 1
- Rosine Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Townsend, Mira Sharpless, 1798-1859 1
- Valentino, Carmen 1
- Wing, Asa S. (Asa Shove), 1850-1931 1
- Wing, Sophia Rhoads, 1850-1901 1 ∧ less
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