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Woodbourne Orchards and family of Francis R. Cope Jr., 1848-1997 (inclusive)

Extent:

43 boxes (26 boxes in original collection, 17 boxes in addition, 43 boxes total, and 1 tube.)

Abstract:

Papers of the Cope family whose members descended from or were forebears of Francis R. Cope Jr. (1878-1962). The bulk of the papers was created by Francis R. Cope Jr., his daughter, Theodora Morris Cope and her first husband, John Frederick Stanwell-Fletcher. Other principal writers in the collection are Alexis T. Cope, Agnes Cope, Anna S. Cope, Caroline Cope, Clementine Cope, Elizabeth S. Cope, and Evelyn Cope, all from the 19th and 20th century. The earlier Copes were Quakers, but some joined other Protestant denominations.

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