Belfield papers 1697-1977

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Belfield papers 1697-1977

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The Belfield papers include materials from families who lived in the Belfield mansion in Germantown, Pennsylvania from 1826 until 1984; however, the papers span the years 1679 to 1977. Featured individuals include William and Sarah Logan Fisher Wister, their son John Wister and his wife, Sarah Tyler Boas Wister, their granddaughter Sarah Logan Wister Starr and her husband, James Starr, and their great-granddaughter S. Logan Starr Blain and her husband, Dr. Daniel Blain. The collection also houses papers from related individuals in the Emlen, Fisher, Hall, Lindley, Logan, Meigs, Wister, and other families. This collection includes correspondence, financial records, ephemera, photographs, scrapbooks, pamphlets, periodicals, and other items. Topics that are particularly well documented in the Belfield papers include: Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania; Colonial Dames of America; the Sesquicentennial Exposition; stamp collecting; world travel during the Great Depression; twentieth-century psychiatry; nineteenth-century industry and legal practice; and the genealogy of the Logan, Fisher and Wister families.

106.0 Linear feet; 235 boxes and 99 volumes

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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Wister, Sarah Logan Fisher, 1806-1891

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Sarah Logan Fisher (May 18, 1806-December 26, 1891) was the daughter of William Logan Fisher and Mary Rodman of New Bedford, Massachusetts. On September 26, 1826, she married William Wister (February 2, 1803-November 10, 1891), the son of John Wister and Elizabeth Harvey of Philadelphia and Germantown, Pennsylvania. Sarah and William Wister had eight children: William Rotch (b. 1827), John (b. 1829), Harvey Langhorne (1831-1852), Langhorne (1834-1891), Elizabeth Harvey (1836-1838), Jones (b. 183...

Wister, William, 1803-1881

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William Wister ran a cloth printing business in Germantown. The Belfield Print Works, which Wister ran from 1833-1854, was destroyed by fire in 1839, but was eventually rebuilt. From the description of Papers, 1790-1899 (inclusive), 1831-1880 (bulk). (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 122523819 ...

Logan family.

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William Logan Fisher (1781-1862) purchased "Belfield," a large house in Germantown, Pennsylvania, from painter Charles Wilson Peale in 1826. He gave the house to his oldest daughter, Sarah Logan Fisher (1806-1891) and her husband, William Wister (1803-1891). Belfield remained home to their descendants until 1984 when it was sold to La Salle University. William Logan Fisher, son of Thomas (1741-1810) and Sarah Logan Fisher (1751-1796), was born in 1781. His great-grandpar...

Wister, Sarah Tyler Boas, b. circa 1833.

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Fisher, W. L. (William Logan), 1781-1862

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In March, 1772, Thomas Fisher married Sarah Logan, uniting two of the most prominent families in American Quaker society. Following in the footsteps of his father, Joshua, Fisher established himself early in life as a merchant, engaging in trade with Britain and her West Indian coloniesuntil the time of the Revolution. Imprisoned and deported from Philadelphia as a suspected loyalist during the Revolution, Fisher nevertheless survived the experience with his business concerns intact...

Starr family.

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William Logan Fisher (1781-1862) purchased "Belfield," a large house in Germantown, Pennsylvania, from painter Charles Wilson Peale in 1826. He gave the house to his oldest daughter, Sarah Logan Fisher (1806-1891) and her husband, William Wister (1803-1891). Belfield remained home to their descendants until 1984 when it was sold to La Salle University. William Logan Fisher, son of Thomas (1741-1810) and Sarah Logan Fisher (1751-1796), was born in 1781. His great-grandpar...

Starr, James, 1870-1937.

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Wister family.

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William Logan Fisher (1781-1862) purchased "Belfield," a large house in Germantown, Pennsylvania, from painter Charles Wilson Peale in 1826. He gave the house to his oldest daughter, Sarah Logan Fisher (1806-1891) and her husband, William Wister (1803-1891). Belfield remained home to their descendants until 1984 when it was sold to La Salle University. William Logan Fisher, son of Thomas (1741-1810) and Sarah Logan Fisher (1751-1796), was born in 1781. His great-grandpar...

Blain, Daniel, 1898-1981

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William Logan Fisher (1781-1862) purchased "Belfield," a large house in Germantown, Pennsylvania, from painter Charles Wilson Peale in 1826. He gave the house to his oldest daughter, Sarah Logan Fisher (1806-1891) and her husband, William Wister (1803-1891). Belfield remained home to their descendants until 1984 when it was sold to La Salle University. William Logan Fisher, son of Thomas (1741-1810) and Sarah Logan Fisher (1751-1796), was born in 1781. His great-grandpar...

Colonial Dames of America

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Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania

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Starr, Sarah Logan Wister, 1873-1956.

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Blain, S. Logan Starr, 1903-1979.

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