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Taylor-Thomson 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 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.
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.
Deposit. The collection was given by Robert M. Taylor, a descendent of the Clothier and Taylor families, in 2001 and 2003.
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Collection is open for research.
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Visit to Virginia
William Rhodes was a Philadelphia financier who fled to New York ahead of a charge of larceny related to the sale of land from the Twaddell estate. William was the son of Charles and Mary Rhodes and also owed money to the Eyres.
J. Dawson Thomson married Annie Knight and was the brother of Thomas Thomson. He moved to Kidder County, Dakota Terrtory, before 1880. He later moved to Pasadena, California.
While travelling in the South.
Travelling in England
A friend on vacation in Europe
Also includes Abington Friends School reunions
Includes account, mottos, daily activities, etc.
Trip to Yellowstone, Colorado, etc.
Trip to Yellowstone, Colorado, etc.
Scrapbook of clippings, glued into 1810-1831 account book.
Deeds and indentures: Yerkes and Paul to Devisee, Sellers to Reed; Rush to Shoemaker, 1768; Lewis to Thomson, 1802; Peter Rush to Charles Shoemaker, 1805, Cheltenham; Ambler to Shoemaker, 1820; Taylor to Lollas (?), 1836; Buckman to Croasdale, 1839, Northampton; Taylor to Taylor, 1840, Lower Dublin; Wright to Taylor, 1840; Taylor and Vaughl (?) to Wright, 1840; Isaac and Charles Shoemaker to John W. Shoemaker, 1840, Cheltenham; Isaac and Charles Shoemaker to John W. Shoemaker, 1847, Cheltenham; Spencer Shoemaker to Jacob Myers, 1847, Cheltenham; John W. Shoemaker to Spencer Shoemaker, 1847; Fisher to Griffith, 1848; Fisher to Ryan, 1849; Taylor to Ronaldson, 1849; Fisher to Roberts, 1849; Paul to Mitchell, 1853; Kirk to Bradshaw, 1853; Moore to Stemple, 1853; Fisher to Thomson, 1853; Carver to Corson, 1854, Northampton; Jacob Myers to John A. Ervien, 1855, Cheltenham; Bradshaw to Penrose, 1860; Thomson to Morrison, 1860, Cheltenham; Exparte to Williams, 1863; Exparte to Williams, 1863; Williams to Shimson (?), 1863; Roberts to Morrison, 1864, Cheltenham; Stempel to Stempel, 1864; Reed to Morrison, 1864; Reed to Morrison, 1864; Dill to Cornell (?), 1864, Northampton; Morrison to Reed, 1864, Cheltenham; Cornell to Shaffer, 1867, Northampton; Cavender to Thomson, 1868; Reed to Sellers, 1870, Cheltenham; Croasdale to Scheifer, 1871, Northampton; Sellers to Barber, 1871, Cheltenham; Barber to Thomson, 1871, Cheltenham; Hagerman to Scheifer, 1873, Northampton; Finleg (?) to Holloway, 1874; Holloway to Roberts, 1875; Mudic to Scott, 1875, Gloucester; Franklin to Thomson, 1876; Lukens to Thomson, 1877; Carver to Carver, 1881, Northampton ; Corson to Schiefer, 1884; Corson to Schiefer, 1886; Wilson to Levis, 1887; Eastern to Schiefer, 1887, Northampton; Leech to Thomson, 1887; Rhodes to Eyre, 1888; Rhodes to Eyre, 1892, Newtown; Wight to Gilbert, 1896; Pindell to Scheifer, 1900 (?), Northampton (?); Myers and Ervien Company to American Fork and Hoe Company, 1902, Cheltenham; American Fork and Hoe Company to Landis, 1905, Cheltenham; Pindell to Goash (?), 1910; Pindell to Pindell, 1910; Hendrickson to Taylor, 1915; Thomson to Hendrickson, 1915, Cheltenham; Thomson to Wilson, 1916, Cheltenham; Thomson to Taylor, 1917, Mority(?); Landis to Taylor, 1919, Cheltenham; Taylor to Thomson, 1919, Cheltenham; Taylor to Thomson, 1924, Cheltenham, Certificate for lot at Fair Hill, 1868
Thomas and John Thomson and others acted as Executors for a number of local estates
Includes issues of the Friends Journal, Friends Intelligencer, and the Public Ledger. Also beginning of term notice from Chesterfield School and newspaper clippings.
Copy photo. Family standing in front of the Great Pyramid and Sphinx.
William Thomson Jr., Thomas Thomson, and photo of peony beds (1923)