Repository: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections / Record Source: Other PACSCL Partners / Year: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1865">1865</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1869">1869</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Welsh Society of Philadelphia records, 1798-1978 (inclusive)

Extent:: 8 linear ft. (19 hollinger boxes and 3 volumes)
Abstract:: Records of the Welsh Society of Philadelphia, a benevolent society founded in 1729 to guide and assist people of Welsh descent.

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

Wheeler - Smith Family papers, 1814-1936 (inclusive) 1864-1865 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.25 linear ft. (1 box)
Abstract:: The collection consists primarily of letters to and from Woodbury C. Smith, his father, Samuel Smith, and his wife, Helen Wheeler Smith and principally relates to the Civil War.

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Josiah White papers, 1797-1949 (inclusive)

Extent:: 4 linear ft. (6 boxes and 9 volumes)
Abstract:: 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 community affairs.

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Julia Wilbur papers, 1843-1908 (inclusive) 1843-1895 (bulk)

Extent:: 2.5 linear ft. (6 boxes)
Abstract:: Civil War era diaries of Julia Wilbur, a teacher and Contraband relief worker.

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Thomas Evans papers, 1704-1868 (inclusive) 1823-1859 (bulk)

Extent:: .75 linear ft. (2 boxes)
Abstract:: This collection contains over 240 mainly incoming manuscript letters addressed to Thomas Evans, a Philadelphia druggist, author, editor, Orthodox Quaker minister of Philadelphia and, in 1833, one the founders of Haverford College. The letters, 1823-1859, contain material on his very active role in the Society of Friends and the problems of religious doctrine before and during the Hicksite and Wilburite schisms within the Quaker faith. The collection also includes papers and legal documents from Evans' role as trustee for multiple Quaker estates.

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Thomas Chase presidential papers, 1868-1886 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.1 linear ft. (1 folder)
Abstract:: The collection consists of two addresses on education given by Thomas Chase, President of Haverford College from 1875 to 1886.

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Rhoads-Evans-Garrett Family Papers, 1699-2011 (inclusive)

Extent:: 25.2 linear ft. (60 boxes, 8 volumes)
Abstract:: The William Evans Rhoads family papers collection contains letters, financial material, deeds, photographs, genealogical charts and more, related to William Evans Rhoads, his children, and his ancestors extending back to the early 1800s. William Evans Rhoads was a Quaker businessman living in Moorestown, New Jersey at the turn of the 20th century.

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Thomas family diaries, 1860-1925 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.84 linear ft. (2 boxes)
Abstract:: The Thomas family were Philadelphia and later Maryland Quakers who lived and worked primarily on a farm called "Fairland" in Harford County, MD. The collection consists of diaries, daguerreotypes, and one financial ledger.

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Emma Thompson diaries, 1855-1926 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2.3 linear ft. (2 boxes, 16 volumes)
Abstract:: Emma Thompson was a Brooklyn and Philadelphia socialite and Quaker woman in the late 19th and early 20th century. This collection consists of diaries (both daily and travel).

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

Roberts Family Correspondence, 1815-1922, undated (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.832 linear ft. (2 boxes)
Abstract:: This collections contains materials belonging to the Roberts Family from 1815-1922. The bulk of this collections consists of correspondence with Elizabeth T. Roberts.

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