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Quaker businesspeople

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Taylor Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-962
Overview

Papers realted to the 19th-century Quaker Shoemaker and Taylor families of Burlington, NJ and Philadelphia and their westward movement to begin a business in Ohio. They deal also with such varied topics as surveying, sheep raising, the Contraband Relief Commission, the establishment of Bryn Mawr College and the mental hospital Friends' Asylum. Prominent correspondents are Abraham Merritt Taylor, Joseph Wright Taylor, Isaac Shoemaker, Charles Shoemaker and Thomas Wistar Jr.

Dates: 1755 - 1930

Arthur H. and Esther Willits Thomas Correspondence, 1888-1945

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1037
Overview

A collection of correspondences between Arthur H. Thomas and Esther E. Willits and assorted family and friends of the couple. Topics include daily life, courtship, marriage, illness, and business.

Dates: 1888-1945; Majority of material found within 1891-1899