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Darlington Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-296
Overview
This collection contains the papers of the Darlington family of Delaware County, Pa., and Woodstown, NJ. Quakers with strong ties to Swarthmore College, the family was involved in education, social and peace concerns, and businesses in the Philadelphia area. Charles J. Darlington (1894-1966) served as Clerk of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends during the reunification of the two Philadelphia Yearly Meetings. The collection includes family correspondence relating...
Dates:
1831-2012
Lippincott Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-251
Overview
Horace Mather Lippincott (1877-1967) was a Quaker editor and historian. The collection contains his speeches and writings on topics primarily concerning the Society of Friends and the history of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Of particular interest is the scrapbook he compiled in 1946 of papers and photographs of the 1913-1914 Joint Group which met weekly to study the Separation in the Society of Friends, along with other papers on the topic and on the first joint meeting of the two...
Dates:
1752 - 2010
Charles Smith Ogden family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-108
Overview
Charles Smith Ogden (1822-1904) was a Quaker businessman, genealogist, and civic leader. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, educated in Friends' schools, and married Emma Corbit in 1848. He worked as a wholesale druggist before the Civil War, was active on the committee to elect Abraham Lincoln, and served as Consul to Quebec, Canada, 1860-1864. In 1886, he began a tour around the world, which is recounted in his travel letters, 1886-1891. This collection contains genealogical...
Dates:
1732-1938
Painter Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-110
Overview
The Painter family was an early Pennsylvania Quaker family that married into the Minshall family of Delaware County. In 1681, William Penn granted Thomas Minshall a land tract which now includes the Tyler Arboretum. The property was home to eight generations of the same family. The collection includes family correspondence, business and legal papers, property records, papers on interests and concerns of the Painter brothers, genealogical papers, and miscellaneous deeds and other papers...
Dates:
1687-1948
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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- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 3
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- Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 1
- Chester Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : 1681-1827) 1
- Chester Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1934) 1
- Comly, John, 1773-1850 1
- Darlington family 1
- Darlington, Charles J. (Charles Joseph), 1894-1966 1
- Darlington, Esther 1
- Dillwyn, George, 1738-1820 1
- Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
- Five Years Meeting (Society of Friends: U.S.) 1
- Francke, Marie Ogden, 1878-1955 1
- Gause family 1
- Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849 1
- Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 1
- Hunn family 1
- Hunn, Ezekiel, 1841-1926 1
- Hunn, Lydia Jones Sharpless, 1818-1911 1
- James, Rachel P. (Rachel Painter), 1792-1863 1
- John J. Tyler Arboretum (Media, Pa.) 1
- Jones, Rebecca, 1739-1817 1
- Lippincott family 1
- Lippincott, H. Mather, Jr. (Horace Mather), 1921-2010 1
- Lippincott, Horace Mather, 1877-1967 1
- Lippincott, Margaret Walker 1
- Mather family 1
- Middletown Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : 1699-1827 : Delaware County, Pa.) 1
- Middletown Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite : 1827- : Delaware County, Pa.) 1
- Minshall family 1
- Minshall, Jacob, 1738-1817 1
- Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880 1
- Ogden family 1
- Ogden, Charles Smith, 1822- 1
- Ogden, Emma Corbit, 1827-1874 1
- Painter family 1
- Painter, Enos, 1773-1857 1
- Painter, Jacob, 1814-1876 1
- Painter, Minshall, 1801-1873 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 1
- Salkeld, John, 1672-1739 1
- Savery, William, 1721 or 1722-1787 1
- Sharples, Edith, 1743-1787 1
- Sharples, Joshua, 1747-1826 1
- Shortlidge family 1
- Swarthmore College 1
- Tyler, Ann Painter, 1818-1914 1
- Tyler, John J., 1851-1930 1
- Walker family 1
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