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Foster-Meyers Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-221
Abstract
Contains the papers of the Foster Family, a Wilburite New England Quaker family of Rhode Island, and the Meyers Family, conservative Orthodox Quakers of the Midwest. The families were united in 1924 by the marriage of Henry Cope Foster (1895-1987) of Warwick, Rhode Island, and Thyra Jane Meyers (1898-1984), born in West Branch, Iowa. The collection contains extensive personal correspondence of five generations of the Foster and Meyers families, school materials, diaries, writings,...
Dates:
1765-2006
Smedley Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-319
Abstract
The collection contains correspondence, journals and other writings, business and legal papers, and miscellaneous items of the Smedley family, a large and prominent Quaker family of Penncrest Farm, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The family was related to the Kite and Sharples/Sharpless families of Chester and Delaware Counties. The papers include significant correspondence of the Kite family, especially Thomas Kite (1785-1845) and Mary Kite (1792-1861), both prominent...
Dates:
1751 - 1996; Majority of material found within 1821 - 1950
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- Balderston, Ida Smedley (Ida Roberts Smedley Balderston), 1896-1993 1
- Coope, Benjamin, 1765-1845 1
- Coope, Rachel, 1771-1807 1
- Foster family 1
- Foster, Elizabeth, 1888-1980 1
- Foster, Henry C. (Henry Cope), 1895-1987 1
- Foster, Horace B. (Horace Bragg), 1850-1933 1
- Foster, John Henry, -1926 1
- Foster, Mary C. (Mary Cope), 1854-1936 1
- Foster, Thyra Jane 1
- Friends Boarding School (Barnesville, Ohio) 1
- Iowa Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends. Hickory Grove Quarterly Meeting 1
- Kite family 1
- Kite, Mary, 1793?-1861 1
- Meyers family 1
- Meyers, Bernice L. (Bernice Lydia), 1896-1946 1
- Meyers, Joseph E. (Joseph Elkinton), 1858-1937 1
- Meyers, Mary W. (Mary Worthington), 1862-1925 1
- Muncy Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends) 1
- Nantucket Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Orthodox : 1845- 1867 : Nantucket, Mass.) 1
- New England Yearly Meeting of Friends 1
- Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative : 1854- ) 1
- Pocono Manor (Pa.) 1
- Pocono Manor Association 1
- Providence Monthly Meeting of Friends (Providence, R.I.) 1
- Sharpless family 1
- Sharpless, Aaron, 1809-1876 1
- Sharpless, Susanna Kite, 1809-1844 1
- Smedley family 1
- Smedley, Elizabeth Sharpless, 1842-1924 1
- Smedley, Emma, 1868-1944 1
- Smedley, Walter, 1862-1939 1
- Stillwater Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Wilburite : 1854- : Barnesville, Ohio) 1
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