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Underwood Family 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:
RG5.153
Repository:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
0.21 linear ft. (1 box)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item or series here], RG5/153, Underwood Family Papers, 1833-1927, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Date:
1833-1927 (inclusive)
Creator:
Underwood family, Underwood, Warner, 1851-1941, and Underwood, Tamar Eliza John, 1848-1932
Abstract:
The Underwood family was a Quaker family, of Millville, Pennsylvania, and Woodbury, New Jersey. The collection contains chiefly papers of Warner Underwood (1851-1941), Quaker businessman and philanthropist, and his wife, Tamar Eliza John Underwood (1848-1932), including personal correspondence, financial and legal records (1876) relating to a sawmill in Centre County, Pa., student copy work, memorabilia, and historical material relating to Millville.

The Underwood family was a Quaker family, of Millville, Pennsylvania, and Woodbury, New Jersey. Warner Underwood (5/9/1851-2/4/1941) was a Quaker businessman and philanthropist. He married Tamar Eliza John (12/19/1848-8/2/1932) at the home of her mother, Hannah Kester John, in Millville, Columbia County, Pa, under the care of Fishing Creek Monthly Meeting on the 21st day of 10th month, 1875. They had two sons, James Harris Underwood (b. 9/27/1876) and Amos Parker Underwood (b. 12/24/1883). The family transferred from Centre Monthly Meeting, Pa., to Woodbury Monthly Meeting, N.J., certificate in 1880.

The collection contains chiefly papers of Warner Underwood (1851-1941), Quaker businessman and philanthropist, and his wife, Tamar Eliza John Underwood (1848-1932), including personal correspondence, financial and legal records (1876) relating to a sawmill in Centre County, Pa., student copy work, memorabilia, and historical material relating to Millville.

The collection is divided into six series:

  1. Biographical and genealogical
  2. Correspondence
  3. Legal and financial papers
  4. Writings
  5. Memorabilia
  6. Reference material, Quaker

Accession information

Donor: Joseph Mather Livezey, 1967

Unprocessed when received. Sorted and placed in RG 5.

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Publisher
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Author
FHL staff
Finding Aid Date
1967
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

Archival Resource Key. "Memories of Millville and Greenwood Seminary", and other memoirs, 8/26/1897.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Includes memorial booklet on Henry W. Wilbur.

Archival Resource Key. Golden Wedding Anniversary Booklet, 10/21/1925.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Enclosures, manuscript copy of minute of Woolwich Preparative Meeting (53rd Anniversary), and poem "Golden Wedding", by Roselda Kester Cloud, 10/21/1928.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Various correspondence, 10/5/1889-1/18/1915.

Archival Resource Key. Assignment of lease of saw mill property from Jesse Underwood to his son Warner Underwood, 4/1/1876.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Will of R. Orlando Way, 3/13/1902.
Box 1
Physical Description

typed copy

Archival Resource Key. Student compositions and verse, n.d.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Names of William I. and Warner Underwood (brothers) on a few of the papers.

Archival Resource Key. Acct. of John Randolph's last illness, manumission of the people he enslaved (typed), and pamphlet "From the deposition of Dr. Joseph Parrish in John Randolph's Case", 1833.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Memorials and obituaries, 1895, 1910, 1920.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Memorials of John Kester and Hannah M. K. Towns (brother and sister), and others.

Archival Resource Key. Minutes (extracts) of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1852.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. "An Epistle of Tender Caution", Job Scott, 1886.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Account of Woodbury P.M.'s philanthropic work, 1902-1915.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. "Views and Testimonies of Friends", Isaac Hilborn, 1904.
Box 1
Physical Description

2 copies

Archival Resource Key. Account of uniting of two branches of Friends at Woodbury, NJ.
Box 1
Physical Description

rough notes

Archival Resource Key. Meeting for Worship, an outline, n.d.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Postcards of Friends Meeting House, Wilmington, DE.
Box 1

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