Scrapbook, 1804, 1835-ca. 1935.

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Scrapbook, 1804, 1835-ca. 1935.

https://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/resources/sfhl-sc-166

Includes Westtown mensuration book, 1835, with newspaper clippings glued in, 1889-1893 & n.d. Also assorted newspaper clippings concerning the Twining family, the Atkinson family, the Smith family, the Carlisle Indian School, Quakers in Bucks County (Pa.), Bucks County history, the Molloy family, and Friends' schools. Obituaries of note in this folder are Isaiah Quinby, 1716-1807; Eleanor Mabel Malloy, 1883-1908; Miranda Doan Baker, d. 1900; Mary B. Stradling, d. 1899; Abram R. Vail, d. 1899; Marcie A. Warner, d. 1914; Sarah Heston, b. 1800. The third folder contains a collection of poems clipped from newspapers, 1872-1916 and n.d., and a letter from Benjamin Smith to Esther Smith, 1804.

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Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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Westtown Boarding School

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Carlisle Indian Industrial School (Carlisle, Pa.)

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The Carlisle Indian Industrial School was the brainchild of a young lieutenant of the 10th United States (U.S.) Cavalry, Richard Henry Pratt. Lieutenant Pratt had great sympathy for the misery of the Indian, even while he was engaged in subduing the hostile tribes of the West. He became convinced that the solution to the Indian uprisings lay in the education of the Indian rather than in further bloodshed. No public schools allowed Indian students, but Pratt, with the help of influential sympathi...

Twining family.

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Atkinson family.

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Stephen Atkinson was a Quaker born in 1819 to Jonathan and Esther (Smith) Atkinson. He attended Westtown School. Esther Smith was a Quaker born in 1786 to Benjamin and Mary Smith. She married Jonathon Atkinson in 1807 at Wrightstown Monthly Meeting of Friends. From the description of Scrapbook, 1804, 1835-ca. 1935. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 33240178 ...

Smith, Esther, b. 1786.

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Malloy family.

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Smith family.

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Atkinson, Stephen, Dr.

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Buckingham Monthly Meeting of Friends

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Buckingham Monthly Meeting was established in 1720 by Bucks Quarterly Meeting out of Falls Monthly Meeting. At the time of the Hicksite Separation of 1827, the monthly meeting split into Hicksite and Orthodox branches. Buckingham Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) was discontinued in 1897, and its members were attached to Falls Monthly Meeting (Orthodox). Buckingham Monthly Meeting (Hicksite), which reunited with Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Orthodox) in 1955, was the forerunner of the current Buckingha...