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Taylor family. Papers. Additions to collection.

Title: Papers. Additions to collection.

The collection consists of Taylor correspondence, 1815-1835; extracts from the diary of Edward Taylor, M.D.; biographical sketches of Edward and Sarah Taylor as well as genealogies and biographies of the Taylor family; extracts from the Friends Hospital journal-- Dr. Edward Taylor was a physician and superintendent of the hospital from 1823-1832 and his wife was a matron there then; miscellaneous material relating to the Taylors.

ArchivalResource: ca. 50 items, 1 box.

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Taylor family. Papers, 1677-1970 (bulk 1820-1885).

Title: Papers, 1677-1970 (bulk 1820-1885).

Correspondence, diaries, business and legal papers, facsimiles, photographs, drawings, portraits, printed material, receipts, poetry, notebook of medical lectures, and ms. of family genealogy related to Taylor, Shoemaker and allied Quaker families (Allinson, Forster, Hinchman, Hodgkin, Simpson, Wistar and others) of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio and Illinois. Letters discuss family news and Friends' activities, travel, the Civil War (including Friends' relief work and other related Quaker social concerns), Hicksite separation and Wilburite controversy in the Society of Friends, westward expansion including the California gold rush, ranching, Indians and growth of railroads; correspondents include John Allen, J. Bevan Braithwaite, Margaretta S. Hinchman, John Hodgkin, Francis T. King, Charles H. Shoemaker, Isaac Shoemaker, Edward Taylor, Hannah Taylor, Henry W. Taylor, Sarah Merritt Taylor, Thomas Wistar and others. Includes correspondence (1863-1866) of Abraham Merritt Taylor (1799-1873), related to his activities as president of the Contrabands' Relief Commission of Cincinnati to aid escaped and freed slaves (includes correspondence with Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association and American Freedmen's Aid Commission); correspondence of Joseph Wright Taylor (1810-1880), related to his founding of Bryn Mawr College; Walter Hinchman's letters (1862-1869) of his travel west and work on the railroad. Letters (1832-1855) and diary of Elizabeth R. Shoemaker Taylor (1809-1855), tell of family and friends, including Morgan Hinchman's 1847 commitment to Friends' Asylum, Frankford, Pa. and subsequent lawsuit against his family; unpublished ms. of Taylor and Shoemaker genealogy written by Charles Shoemaker Taylor (1850-1939).

ArchivalResource: ca. 3, 315 items (12 boxes)

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Brooks, John P., fl. 1877. Lawyers' and judges' papers, 1736-1914.

Title: Lawyers' and judges' papers, 1736-1914.

Reports (1877) made by U.S. Dept. of Justice detective John P. Brooks to Anthony Q. Keasbey, U.S. attorney in Newark, N.J., relating to attempted fraud in the estate of Joseph L. Lewis; docket (1886-1892) of lawyer Garret S. Byrne, relating to cases from Essex County and other New Jersey courts; legal notebook (undated) on elements of Anglo-American law derived from Blackstone's Commentaries and other treatises, probably the work of David Bayard Ogden (1775-1849) and John I. Young, lawyers, of New York, N.Y.; notebook (ca. 1822) of Richard Wayne Stites (d. 1877), lawyer, of Morristown, N.J., containing notes taken while a student at Litchfield Law School (Conn.) on lectures by Judge James Gould; docket (1810-1811) kept by John W. Taylor, judge, of Saratoga County, N.Y., containing copy letters from Edward Taylor, Monmouth County, N.J., and Taylor family biographical and genealogical material; and congratulatory letters and other papers (1906-1914), of Benjamin Augustus Vail (1844-1924) circuit court judge in Hudson, Somerset, and Union counties, N.J.; and casebook (undated) of legal precedents prepared by Elisha Boudinot, Joseph C. Hornblower, Alexander C. McWhorter, and other Newark, N.J., lawyers.

ArchivalResource: 6 v.

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