Morris Family Items
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a Golden Wedding commemoration booklet, with poetry written by Thomas Wistar, marking the 50th anniversery of Isaac C. Jones and Sarah W. Jones in 1890. In addition, the collection also features Hannah Perot Morris's journal from her voyage to England and France in 1904 with her father, Samuel Morris.
Dates
- Creation: 1890 - 1904
Creator
- Cox, Sallie (Sarah Jones), 1837-1930 (Person)
- Wistar, Thomas (Person)
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research use
Biographical Note
Isaac C. Jones (1814-1895), a broker, married Sarah W. Noodneff (1820-1900) in 1840, Pennsylvania. The Quaker couple had 3 children: Woodruff Jones, Sarah Jones, Hannah Jones.
Hannah Perot Morris (1854-1931) was a Quaker minister, appointed in 1909, and member of Germantown Monthly Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Morris was a delgate of the Meeting of the State Federation of Churches in Harrisburg, as well as the first woman to be appointed to the Germantown Representative Meeting. In 1907, she wrote a biography on her father, "Glimpses of the Life of Samuel Morris." Morris advocated for woman's suffrage and aided in the assimilation of Italian immigrants. She was the daughter of Haverford College alum Samuel Morris and Lydia Spencer Morris.
Extent
0.1 linear ft. (1 Folder)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
This is one folder
Acquisition
Gift of Independence National Historical Park, August 2016.
Processing Information
Processed by Sakina Gulamhusein, completed November 2022
Genre / Form
Topical
- Title
- Morris Family Items
- Author
- Sakina Gulamhusein
- Date
- 1890-1904
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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