Underwood Family Papers
Scope and Contents
The collection contains chiefly papers of Warner Underwood (1851-1941), Quaker businessman and philanthropist, and his wife, Tamar Eliza John Underwood (1848-1932), including personal correspondence, financial and legal records (1876) relating to a sawmill in Centre County, Pa., student copy work, memorabilia, and historical material relating to Millville.
Dates
- Creation: 1833-1927
Creator
- Underwood family (Family)
- Underwood, Warner, 1851-1941 (Contributor, Person)
- Underwood, Tamar Eliza John, 1848-1932 (Contributor, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research
Conditions Governing Use
Friends Historical Library believes all of the items in this collection to be in the Public Domain in the United States, and is not aware of any restrictions on their use. However, the user is responsible for making a final determination of copyright status before reproducing. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/.
Biographical / Historical
The Underwood family was a Quaker family, of Millville, Pennsylvania, and Woodbury, New Jersey. Warner Underwood (5/9/1851-2/4/1941) was a Quaker businessman and philanthropist. He married Tamar Eliza John (12/19/1848-8/2/1932) at the home of her mother, Hannah Kester John, in Millville, Columbia County, Pa, under the care of Fishing Creek Monthly Meeting on the 21st day of 10th month, 1875. They had two sons, James Harris Underwood (b. 9/27/1876) and Amos Parker Underwood (b. 12/24/1883). The family transferred from Centre Monthly Meeting, Pa., to Woodbury Monthly Meeting, N.J., certificate in 1880.
Extent
0.21 linear ft. (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Underwood family was a Quaker family, of Millville, Pennsylvania, and Woodbury, New Jersey. The collection contains chiefly papers of Warner Underwood (1851-1941), Quaker businessman and philanthropist, and his wife, Tamar Eliza John Underwood (1848-1932), including personal correspondence, financial and legal records (1876) relating to a sawmill in Centre County, Pa., student copy work, memorabilia, and historical material relating to Millville.
Arrangement
The collection is divided into six series:
- Biographical and genealogical
- Correspondence
- Legal and financial papers
- Writings
- Memorabilia
- Reference material, Quaker
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession information
Donor: Joseph Mather Livezey, 1967
Processing Information
Unprocessed when received. Sorted and placed in RG 5.
Subject
- Underwood family (Family)
Geographic
- Millville (Columbia County, Pa.) -- History -- Sources
- New Jersey -- History -- Sources
- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources
Topical
- Businessmen -- United States
- Lumber trade -- Pennsylvania
- Lumber trade -- Pennsylvania -- Centre County
- Philanthropists -- United States
- Quaker philanthropists
- Quaker women -- New Jersey
- Quaker women -- Pennsylvania
- Quakers -- New Jersey
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania
- Quakers -- Social life and customs
- Sawmills -- Pennsylvania
- Woodbury (N.J.) -- History -- Sources
- Title
- Underwood Family Papers, 1833-1927
- Author
- FHL staff
- Date
- 1967
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Revision Statements
- 2020: Updated outdated, harmful terminology related to enslavement, except where it appears in a title, quotation, or subject heading.
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