Cadbury, Richard, 1825-1897. Morris-Shinn-Maier collection, 1720-1975.
Title:
Morris-Shinn-Maier collection, 1720-1975.
This collection spans approximately 200 years, from the late 1700s to the late 1900s, and five generations of the Morris-Shinn-Maier family, which are traced through matrilineal and patrilineal lines. They were prominent Quaker businessmen and lawyers in the Philadelphia area, and a large portion of the collection is dedicated to their legal and business material, as well as a great deal of very detailed financial material. There is also a quantity of personal material, namely diaries and correspondence, and material from philanthropic work done by later generations. Principal individuals include Paul David Irwin Maier, William Morris Maier, Anna Shinn Maier, Levi Morris and Naomi McClenachan Morris. This collection includes: Information re Shinn and Newhall-Coffin genealogies. Historical papers, (including deeds, indentures, certificates, letters) of people outside the Morris-Shinn-Maier family. Julia Cope Collins: financial material. Edward Drinker Cope: correspondence, personal and accounting material, estate documents. Mary Thomas McClenachan Jones: personal and accounting material, correspondence, will. Maier family correspondence (William S., Rosine, Frederick Hurst, Julia, Earnest). Maier family receipts (William S. and Frederick Hurst). Anna Shinn Maier: correspondence, financial material, personal material. Paul David Irwin Maier: correspondence, financial material, personal material, Haverfordiana, Joseph Sturge Mission School, Western Soup Society and White & Richardson Trust documents. William Morris Maier: correspondence, Haverfordiana, legal papers, material from Quaker and charitable organizations. Catharine Wistar Morris (1840): correspondence, personal material, financial material. Israel Wistar Morris: correspondence, financial material. Levi Morris: correspondence, legal papers, financial material, business material, personal books. Naomi McClenachan Morris: correspondence, material re properties, personal material, financial material, papers re Levi Morris' death, will. Stephen Paschall Morris: correspondence and papers. Newhall family: letters, legal documents, material re family members' deaths. Mary, Abby and Hannah Johnson Newhall: diaries, commonplace books, correspondence. Earl Shinn: correspondence, financial material, legal material, will, Shinn family material. Earl Shinn, Jr.: correspondence, financial material. Emma Morris Shinn: correspondence, personal material, financial material. James Thornton Shinn: correspondence, personal material, financial material, material re death of Earl Shinn, Jr. Application to place Harriton on the National Register of Historic Sites. Photographs of Paul D. I. and William Morris Maier, Abby and Mary Newhall, Harriton.
ArchivalResource:
78 linear feet.
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