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William Baxter family photographs
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Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081
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William Baxter (1824-1886) was a Quaker Philadelphia-area wool merchant who later settled in Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana, and was active in social reform, particularly in the temperance movement.
He was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1824, the son of John and Mary Baxter. He married first Mary Wickett in 1847. She and her infant son died shortly after the family emigrated to Philadelphia. William Baxter married second Mary Ellen Barker in 1856 at Whitewater Monthly Meeting in Wayne County, Indiana. She had attended Westtown Boarding School in Pennsylvania. Their daughter, Lucy V. Baxter, married Percival Brooks Coffin.
This collection contains Baxter family pictures, in the form of albums and loose photographs.
This collection was removed from RG5/011: William Baxter family papers.
Cased images were removed to PA 107/FHL Cased photographs
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- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
- Finding Aid Author
- Zoe Peyton Jones
- Finding Aid Date
- 2018
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This collection is available for research use.
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Collection Inventory
Includes members of the following families: Barker, Baxter, Moffitt, Pickett, Scull, Macgregor.
Contains portraits of the Baxter family and related families, including: Coffin, Fletcher, Grubb, Moffitt, Moon, Sutton
Brown and black photo album labeled "Cliffside" contains pictures of the Cliffside home of William and Mary Baxter and members of the Baxter family. See also PA 144/06.
Folder 1: Emily Baxter (see also: Folder 4), Herbert Baxter (son of William Baxter), Maria Baxter, Mary Moffit Baxter (wife of William Baxter) (see also: Folder 5); Folder 2: William Baxter (see also: Folder 5), Lucy Baxter Coffin (see also: Folder 5), Percival Brooks Coffin (husband of Lucy Baxter Coffin) (see also: Folder 3), Bennett Smedley Cooper (husband of Emily Fletcher Cooper); Folder 3: Emily Fletcher Cooper (daughter of Sarah Baxter Fletcher) (see also: Folder 3), Edward B. Fletcher (husband of Sarah Baxter Fletcher) (see also: Folder 5), Sarah Baxter Fletcher (see also: Folder 4), Esther Fletcher Richards (wife of Thomas Richards) (see also: Folder 4), Helena Baxter Sutton (see also: Folder 4); Folder 4: John Gough Sutton (husband of Mary Ellen Baxter Sutton), Mary Ellen Baxter Sutton, Sarah Moffet Baxter Fletcher (see also: Folder 3), Elizabeth Hiatt Fletcher, Helena Sutton (see also: Folder 3), Emily J. Baxter (see also: Folder 1), Esther Fletcher (see also: Folder 3), Emily Fletcher Cooper (see also: Folder 3); Folder 5: Hettie Elliott, Hugh Moffitt, Nathan Pickett, Dr. Demetrius Staneft, Mary Moffit Baxter (see also: Folder 1), Edward B. Fletcher (see also: Folder 3), William Baxter (see also: Folder 2), Joseph Fry, Mrs. Joseph Fry, Percival Brooks Coffin (see also: Folder 2), Lucy Baxter Coffin (see also: Folder 2); Folder 6: Gough and Sutton relatives: John Gough, Susanna Josiah Gough, Sarah Elizabeth Gough, Deborah (Fisher) Gough, Mary Fisher Gough, Mrs. David Sutton (mother of John G. Sutton), Elizabeth Chase Sutton, Anne H. Sutton
Home of William and Mary Baxter. See also PA 144/04.
Pages removed from photo album of William Baxter's tour of Yorkshire.
William Baxter (PA 144/09/001) and 9 other men.
Envelope labeled "J.G. Sutton."
Lucy Baxter Coffin, Herbert Baxter, Helena Sutton, John Gough Sutton, Percival Brooks Coffin, Mary Ellen Baxter Sutton, Esther Fletcher, Edith Baxter (wife of Herbert), Sarah Baxter Fletcher, Mary Moffit Baxter (wife of William), Maria Baxter, Emily Maria Fletcher. (3 photos—2 inside, 1 on porch)
Emily Baxter, Herbert Baxter, Lucy Baxter, Sarah Baxter, Mary Ellen Baxter, Maria Baxter. (2 photos)
Lucy Vincent, Maria, Sarah Moffit, Mary Ellen, Emily (2 photos)
2 photos; PA 144/11/005.2 has poem on back
Picture and poem copied from PA 144/11/005.2
2 photos
Mary Moffett Baxter, her four daughters, her son and his wife, Rosswell Harris and his wife and their daughter Dorothy Harris, Hettie Elliott
2 photos
same as PA 144/07/013
same as PA 144/07/014
same as PA 144/07/015
Series marked "Schiller 1928."