Repository: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections / Subject: Quaker businesspeople / Year: <span class="single" data-blrl-single="1868">1868</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

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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Taylor Family papers, 1755-1930 (inclusive)

Extent:: 3.3 linear ft. (8 boxes)
Abstract:: 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.

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George W. Taylor letterbooks, 1852-1868 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.2 linear ft. (2 volumes, 1 folder)
Abstract:: This collection is comprised of two volumes of the letterbooks of convinced Quaker George W. Taylor, which contain business correspondence.

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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 P. Cope packetship logbooks, 1817-1876 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.54 linear ft. (10 folders)
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Morris-Shinn-Maier collection, 1720-1975 (inclusive)

Extent:: 78 linear ft. (131 boxes)
Abstract:: This collection spans approximately 200 years, from the late 1700s to the late 1900s, and five generations of the Morris-Shinn-Maier family, which are traced through matrilineal and patrilineal lines. They were prominent Quaker businessmen and lawyers in the Philadelphia area, and a large portion of the collection is dedicated to their legal and business material, as well as a great deal of very detailed financial material. There is also a quantity of personal material, namely diaries and correspondence, and material from philanthropic work done by later generations. Principal individuals include Paul David Irwin Maier, William Morris Maier, Anna Shinn Maier, Levi Morris and Naomi McClenachan Morris. A genealogical chart done by a Haverford student while processing the collection has been printed out and is included in the box 1191 (ovs).

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Thomas P. Cope Family papers, 1795-1891 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1.25 linear ft. (3 boxes)
Abstract:: Letters, legal, business and financial papers, accounts, minutes, diary, portraits and other papers chiefly related to the Cope family of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Topics include business and civic interests in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting committe aiding German Separatists led by Joseph M. Bimeler (Baumler), Separation of 1827-1828, slavery and immigration of free Black people to Haiti, War of 1812, etc. Letters (1854-1857) of Thomas Garrett (1789-1871) discuss his work assisting fleeing formerly enslaved people.

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Morris Evans Leeds papers, 1862-1944 (inclusive) 1862; 1942 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.5 linear ft. (1 box)
Abstract:: A collection that focuses on two dates: 1862 & 1942. In the former, Lewis W. Leeds' invention of the window envelope is detailed with contracts, bills, correspondence and samples of the envelope. In 1942, his descendant, Morris E. Leeds corresponds with E. Tudor Gross who has become interested in the invention and ends with the article entitled "The Window Envelope," which appeared in the Collector's Club Philatelist in April of that year.

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Mitchell Family letters, 1830-1911 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.5 linear ft. (1 box)
Abstract:: The papers of the Mitchell family, Quakers in 19th century Philadelphia.

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Cope family financial records, 1789-1883 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.4 linear ft. (4 volumes)
Abstract:: The Cope family's financial records include an account book, a Pennsylvania bank account book, and two family cash books. The collection includes both business and personal financial records.

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