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Quaker businesspeople

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:

Charles Shoemaker Taylor letterbook

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-02-022
Overview

This collection is comprised of the single volume letterbook of Charles Shoemaker Taylor, which contains business correspondence related to the buying and selling of goods, livestock, and land. Taylor was educated at Haverford College, was a member of the original board of trustees for Bryn Mawr College until 1893, and was the vice president of the Haverford College Alumni Association.

Dates: 1875-1878

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

George W. Taylor letterbooks

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-02-023
Overview

This collection is comprised of two volumes of the letterbooks of convinced Quaker George W. Taylor, which contain business correspondence.

Dates: 1852-1868

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