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 and subsequent lawsuit against his family; unpublished ms.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).
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