Subject: Quakers -- Diaries / Organization: American Friends Service Committee / Year: <span class="single" data-blrl-single="1861">1861</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Start Over Subject Quakers -- Diaries Organization American Friends Service Committee Year 1861

Extent:: 72 linear ft. (141 boxes and 8 packages, 6 tubes)
Abstract:: The Quaker families of Jones and Cadbury were interrelated with many other Quaker families in the United States and England. This collection provides a rich source of genealogical and historical information, not only on the Jones and Cadbury families, and especially Mary Hoxie Jones (1904-2003) and Emma Cadbury Jr. (1875-1965), but also, significantly, on the Warder family, as well as the Bartram, Brown, Carter, Foulke, Kaighn, Lowry, Mennell, Pearsall, Shinn, and Shipley families.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: 28 linear ft. (57 boxes (and photographs))
Abstract:: This collection contains the papers of the Darlington family of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and Woodstown, New Jersey. Quakers with strong ties to Swarthmore College, the family was involved in education, social and peace concerns, and businesses in the Philadelphia area. Charles J. Darlington (1894-1966) served as Clerk of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends during the reunification of the two Philadelphia Yearly Meetings. The collection includes family correspondence relating to the Darlington, Shortlidge, Gause, and Palmer families as well as genealogical research and 20th century Quaker activities.

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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