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Quaker philanthropists

 Subject
Subject Source: Local Authority: Quaker Subject Headings

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Josiah White papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1166
Overview Josiah White was a 19th-century engineer and the inventor of a method to bring coal down the Lehigh River, a tributary of the Delaware River in Pennsylvania. He was also heavily involved in the education of many among America's less privileged, establishing a number of manual labor schools in the Midwest. The collection includes White's business and personal papers, as well as the papers of Hannah White Richardson and Rebecca White, his daughters, whose interests included religious and...
Dates: 1797-1949