https://findingaids.library.upenn.edu/records/swarthmore_SFHL.RG5.203
Taylor-Thomson Family Papers
- Date
- 1817-1955 (inclusive)
- Extent
- 2.5 linear ft. (3 boxes)
- Call Number
- RG5.203
Description
Where the collection came from, what's inside, and how you can use it.
Biography/History
The Taylors and Thomsons who married into the Knight, Clothier, and Shoemaker families of Montgomery County, Pa., and its environs.
Herbert Knight Taylor (1879-1957) married Elizabeth E. Thomson (1875-1966) in 1897. Their youngest son, Herbert Knight Taylor (b. 1907) married Edith Clothier Maxwell who was the daughter of John Rogers Maxwell, Jr., and Lydia B. Clothier. Lydia was the daughter of Isaac H. and Mary Clapp Jackson Clothier; Isaac was a long supporter of Swarthmore College, including serving as Chairman of the Board of Managers and President of the Corporation.
Scope and Content
This collection includes Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania correspondence, deeds, household account books, copybooks and commonplace books, and miscellaneous newspaper clippings. There is also a photograph of the Clothier family visiting Egypt.
Organization: Organized into five series. Series 1. Correspondence; Series 2. Journals, Albums, and Commonplace Books; Series 3. Other Writings; Series 4. Property and Financial Records; Series 5. Miscellaneous.
Acquisition Information
Deposit. The collection was given by Robert M. Taylor, a descendent of the Clothier and Taylor families, in 2001 and 2003.
Related Materials
See PA 114, Fell Family Pictures for photograph of the Fell family in front of the Great Pyramids.
Rights and citation
- Use
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Some of the items in this collection may be protected by copyright. The user is solely responsible for making a final determination of copyright status. If copyright protection applies, permission must be obtained from the copyright holder or their heirs/assigns to reuse, publish, or reproduce relevant items beyond the bounds of Fair Use or other exemptions to the law. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/.
- Publisher
- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Subjects and headings
- Creator
- Taylor family
- Thomson family
- Subject
- Shoemaker family
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania
- Quakers in business
- Quakers -- Social life and customs
- Deeds -- Pennyslvania -- Montgomery County
- Copybooks
- People
- Clothier family
- Taylor family
- Thomson family
- Taylor, Robert, Mr.
- Language
- English
- Form
- albums (books)
Inventory
Everything in this collection, in the order the archivist chose to help you understand it.
Ser. 1. Correspondence, 1830-1952
Ser. 2. Journals, Albums, and Commonplace Books, 1823-1934 n.d.
Ser. 3. Other Writings, 1815-1864
Ser. 4. Property and Financial Records, 1768-1936 n.d.
Ser. 5. Miscellaneous, 1836-1955
Contact
These materials are held by Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. Contact them to schedule a visit or ask about your research.
- Address
- 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081
- specialcollections@swarthmore.edu
- Website
- https://resolver.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/ark:/37966/s117a3b31a-1d0c-4daf-a532-91df54a62a20