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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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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:
- Biographical and genealogical
- Correspondence
- Legal and financial papers
- Writings
- Memorabilia
- Reference material, Quaker
Accession information
Donor: Joseph Mather Livezey, 1967
Unprocessed when received. Sorted and placed in RG 5.
People
Subject
- Businessmen -- United States
- Philanthropists -- United States
- Quaker philanthropists
- Quakers -- New Jersey
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania
- Quakers -- Social life and customs
- Quaker women -- New Jersey
- Quaker women -- Pennsylvania
- Sawmills -- Pennsylvania
- Lumber trade -- Pennsylvania -- Centre County
- Lumber trade -- Pennsylvania
- Woodbury (N.J.) -- History -- Sources
Place
- Publisher
- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
- Finding Aid Author
- FHL staff
- Finding Aid Date
- 1967
- Access Restrictions
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Collection is open for research
- Use Restrictions
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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
Includes memorial booklet on Henry W. Wilbur.
typed copy
Names of William I. and Warner Underwood (brothers) on a few of the papers.
Memorials of John Kester and Hannah M. K. Towns (brother and sister), and others.
2 copies
rough notes