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Mary Williams Shoemaker Papers

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Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081

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Call Number:
RG5.139
Repository:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
0.5 linear ft. (1 box)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item or series here], RG 5/139, Mary Williams Shoemaker Papers, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Date:
1860-1957 (inclusive)
Creator:
Shoemaker, Mary Williams, 1861-1953 and Shoemaker, Thomas (Thomas Howard), 1851-1936
Form:
Deeds and Diaries
Abstract:
Mary Williams Shoemaker (1861-1953) was a Quaker philanthropist from Germantown, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Franklin and Mary (Williams) Shoemaker. The collection contains chiefly journals (1934-1945) and correspondence (1914-1953) relating to Shoemaker's support of Quaker historical, educational, and social service agencies; together with correspondence of her brother, Thomas Howard Shoemaker (1851-1936), relating to his historical interests and civic activities. Includes deeds and business papers relating to Shoemaker family properties in Philadelphia and Pike County.

Mary Williams Shoemaker (1861-1953) was a Quaker philanthropist from Germantown, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Franklin and Mary (Williams) Shoemaker. Thomas Howard Shoemaker (1851-1936) was her brother.

The collection contains chiefly journals (1934-1945) and correspondence (1914-1953) relating to Shoemaker's support of Quaker historical, educational, and social service agencies; together with correspondence of her brother, Thomas Howard Shoemaker (1851-1936), relating to his historical interests and civic activities. Includes deeds and business papers relating to Shoemaker family properties in Philadelphia and Pike County.

The collection is divided into four series:

  1. Journals
  2. Correspondence
  3. Deeds for burial ground lots
  4. Pictures

Donor: Anna Griscom Elkinton, 1962

Cased photograph removed to FHL Cased Pictures Collection. Related family business papers were catalogued separately as RG 5/138, Shoemaker Family Papers.

See also:

  1. Shoemaker Family Papers, RG 5/138

A cased photograph of Thomas H. Shoemaker, age 3 and a half years was removed from the collection and recatalogued in Cased Pictures.

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Publisher
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Author
FHL staff
Finding Aid Date
1962
Sponsor
Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

Friends Historical Library believes all of the items in this collection to be in the Public Domain in the United States, and is not aware of any restrictions on their use. However, the user is responsible for making a final determination of copyright status before reproducing. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/.

Collection Inventory

Journals, 1934-1945.

Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College.
Box 1
Germantown Historical Society.
Box 1
Haverford College Quaker Collection.
Box 1
Historical Society of Montgomery County.
Box 1
Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Box 1
New York Historical Society.
Box 1
American Friends Service Committee.
Box 1
Bedford Center.
Box 1
Frankford Meeting House Building Fund.
Box 1
Friends Committee on National Legislation.
Box 1
Friends Free Library.
Box 1
Germantown Friends School.
Box 1
Germantown Boys' Club.
Box 1
Germantown Dispensary Hospital.
Box 1
Jeanes Hospital.
Box 1
Pendle Hill.
Box 1
United Negro College Fund.
Box 1
Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania.
Box 1

Scope and Contents

With related correspondence.

Fair Hill Burial Ground lot, certificate to Nathan Shoemaker from the Committee on Interments, Green St. Monthly Meeting, 7/30/1860.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Also, receipt for $100. for care of above lot, to Thos. H. Shoemaker from Green St. Meeting, 9/16/1901

Laurel Hill Cemetery deed, to Howard W. Lloyd, 7/31/1895.
Box 1
Letter from Laurel Hill Cemetery Co. to Thos. H. Shoemaker on care of lot., 4/4/1918.
Box 1
Letter from the executor of the estate of Mary E. Williams to Superintendent of Laurel Hill Cemetery Co. on care of lot., 4/13/1918/.
Box 1
Letter from treasurer of Laurel Hill Cemetery Co. to Thos. H. Shoemaker acknowledging receipt of $225, and $8., 4-22-1918.
Box 1
Letter from Laurel Hill Cemetery Co. to Thos. H. Shoemaker on cost of perpetual care, 8-24-1924.
Box 1
Laurel Hill Cemetery lot, to Thos. H. Shoemaker,, 9-9-1924.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Also includes receipt for $300 for perpetual care of lot, 9/9/1924, and original deed of this lot to Franklin Shoemaker, 7/9/1867

2 Laurel Hill Cemetery lots, to Miss Mary W. Shoemaker, 5/8/1939.
Box 1
Letter, unsigned, to Laurel Hill Cemetery Co., 4-19-1939.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Complaining of neglect of lot. Enclosed, cancelled check for $200. signed by Mary W. Shoemaker.

Chart of plot and instructions for care, n.d.
Box 1

Photograph in case, of Thos. H. Shoemaker at 3.5 yrs., removed to Cased Pictures.
Box 1
5 photographs of Thos. H. Shoemaker,, 1866, 1868 1878, 1881, 1882.
Box 1
Envelope of pictures of Mary W. Shoemaker,, 1875, 1886, 1890, & 2 n.d.
Box 1
Envelope of pictures of Mary W. and Thos. H. Shoemaker and mother, Mary W. Shoemaker., 1882-1912, n.d.
Box 1
photograph of Mary W. Shoemaker, mother of Mary W. Thos. H. Shoemaker.
Box 1
photograph of Franklin Shoemaker, father of M.W.S. T.H.S., ca. 1877.
Box 1
photograph of Frances M. Shoemaker, wife of Nathan Shoemaker and grandmother of Mary W. and Thos. H. Shoemaker.
Box 1

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