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Taylor Family Papers HC.Coll.1233 Finding Aid Prepared by Diana Franzusoff Peterson Taylor Family Papers HC.Coll.1233 Finding aid prepared by Diana Franzusoff Peterson This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit November 26, 2012 Describing Archives: A Content Standard Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections 370 Lancaster Ave Haverford, PA, 19041 610-896-1161 [email protected] Taylor Family Papers HC.Coll.1233 Table of Contents Summary Information ................................................................................................................................. 3 Biographical/Historical note.......................................................................................................................... 5 Scope and Contents note............................................................................................................................... 6 Administrative Information .........................................................................................................................7 Related Materials ........................................................................................................................................ 7 Controlled Access Headings..........................................................................................................................7 Collection Inventory...................................................................................................................................... 9 Anne Taylor Bronner letters to Alice Rinehart.......................................................................................9 A.J. Edmunds papers............................................................................................................................... 9 Elizabeth H. Richie Papers....................................................................................................................11 Elizabeth Savery Taylor papers.............................................................................................................14 Francis R. Taylor papers....................................................................................................................... 15 George Washington Taylor papers........................................................................................................29 Hubert Taylor papers.............................................................................................................................43 Taylor family letters, 19th century........................................................................................................46 Photographs, maps and deed................................................................................................................. 47 - Page 2 - Taylor Family Papers HC.Coll.1233 Summary Information Repository Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections Creator Edmunds, Albert J. (Albert Joseph), 1857-1941 Creator Jacob, Edward H., 1871-1955 Creator Jacob, Emma Taylor, 1883-1955 Creator Richie, Edward, 1813-1903 Creator Richie, Sarah A., 1817-1888 Creator Savery, Thomas H. Creator Taylor, Elizabeth Richie, 1882/3-1970 Creator Taylor, George Washington, 1803-1891 Creator Taylor, Hubert Richie, 1916-1998 Creator Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 Title Taylor Family Papers Date 1737-1999 Extent 19.0 Boxes General Physical Quantities of items in a folder or other container are estimations. Description note - Page 3 - Taylor Family Papers HC.Coll.1233 Language English Material Specific Details The marriage certificate of George Washington Taylor and Elizabeth note Sykes in 1831 is in the papers of Francis R. Taylor in this collection Abstract This collection traces several generations of the Quaker Taylor family, but centers on Francis R. Taylor (1884-1947) and George Washington Taylor (1803-1891). The former was an attorney and collector of information about his own and related families as well as local historical information. The latter who ran a free produce store in Philadelphia in the period before the American Civil War was connected through his interests in free labor to many correspondents. Preferred Citation note Haverford College Library, Haverford, PA, Special Collections, Quaker Collection, Taylor family papers, Coll. No. 1233 - Page 4 - Taylor Family Papers HC.Coll.1233 Biographical/Historical note Albert J. Edmunds (1857-1941) was a British-born archivist, a member of the Society of Friends, a mystic, pupil and disciple of J. Rendel Harris. He spent many years at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Francis R. Taylor (1884-1947), the son of Elizabeth Savery and Thomas B. Taylor, graduated from Haverford College in 1906, then University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1909. He became a practicing attorney in Philadelphia. He became a recorded minister of Abington Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends in 1922, was a founding member of Cheltenham (PA) Meeting and was clerk of his monthly, quarterly and yearly meetings; he founded the Cheltenham National Bank and was its president from 1924 until his death; he was also treasurer of Savery Realty Corporation. He m. Elizabeth Richie in 1911. Information primarily from the Dictionary of Quaker Biography Elizabeth Richie Taylor (1883-1970), wife of Francis R. Taylor, was a member of Cheltenham Monthly Meeting, which she and her husband founded in their home in 1915, as well as starting the Joint Committee of Montgomery and Bucks Country Friends in the late 1930s, to bring members of the two branches together. She was active in the Women's Christian Temperance union, the William Forster Home and committees of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Information from Friends Journal 16 1970, p. 636 George Washington Taylor (1803-1891) was the son of Jacob and Elizabeth Richards Taylor. In his Recollections of My Life Time, he remarked that his parents "were not in communion with any religious society," but attended Friends Meeting at New Garden and when George Taylor was 12, he was received into membership. In boyhood, he became anti-slavery, having read John Woolman's Testimony. He was great-uncle to Francis Taylor. According to the latter's notes, GW Taylor was "connected all his life with the evangelical group in Philadelphia, an early admirer of Joseph John Gurney, an ardent abolitionist and, for many years, proprietor of the Free Produce Store in Philadelphia. Much of his correspondence with Elihu Burritt on the Free Produce Movement is still extant. He suffered with Whittier in the burning of Pennsylvania Hall in Philadelphia in 1838, their desks being side by side." Taylor was the publisher of the journal The Non-Slaveholder and a peace paper The Citizen of the World. He was married 3 times, first to Ruth Leeds, then Elizabeth Burton and then Elizabeth Sykes. Information primarily from the Dictionary of Quaker Biography Hubert Richie Taylor (1916-1998) was the son of Francis Taylor and Elizabeth Richie Taylor. He attended Westtown School and graduated from Haverford College in 1938; he received a law degree from Temple University. He was a conscientious objector during WWII, spending 3 1/2 years in Civilian Public Service as a road builder, attendant in a mental hospital and a smoke jumper in Montana. He served on several boards, including William Penn Charter School and supported many organizations. He was a member of Cheltenham (PA) Meeting and later Southampton (PA) Meeting. He was married to Dorothy Plaisted. Information from Friends Journal 45 1999 (March), p. 35 Thomas B. Taylor (1853 -1911) was a Philadelphia-based attorney and member of Birmingham Monthly Meeting. Information from The Friend 84 (1911), p. 368 - Page 5 - Taylor Family Papers HC.Coll.1233 Elizabeth Savery Taylor (1853-1936) was the wife of Thomas B. Taylor and mother of Francis R. Taylor. Information from The Friend 109 (1936), p. 361 Scope and Contents note This collection includes the papers of Anne Taylor Bronner, A.J. Edmunds (1857-1941), Edward Jacob, Emma Jacob, Edward Richie, Sarah A. Richie, Thomas Savery, Elizabeth Richie Taylor (1883-1970), Elizabeth Hooton Richie, Mary Ann Taylor, Thomas B. Taylor (1853-1911), Esther Hunt Taylor, Elizabeth Savery Taylor (1853-1936), Francis R. Taylor (1884-1947), George Washington Taylor (1803-1891) and Hubert Taylor (1917-1999). The papers detail their lives, especially within the Quaker communities in which they lived, as well as their business dealings, attendance and observation of the proceedings of Quaker Meetings, genealogy, family life, health issues and friendships. The greatest representation in the collection is in the papers of Francis R. Taylor and those of George Washington Taylor. George Washington Taylor's correspondence reports on the Quaker schism of 1827-1828, resulting in the Orthodox and Hicksite branches of Quakers, and discusses his religious views, Elias Hicks, Joseph John Gurney, the school at which he worked in Flushing, NY, attending Meeting, Free Produce and free labor. There are many letters from Nathan Thomas, a free labor agent traveling in the South. Taylor corresponded with Levi Coffin and Elihu Burritt, and in a draft of a letter he wrote to Abraham Lincoln, he explains his support of the president and the Emancipation Proclamation. Hamilton Fish wrote to George Washington Taylor in 1875 on the Cuban question. Of note in Elizabeth H. Richie's papers is her account of her family, beginning in 1848. Within Francis R. Taylor's papers are letters to his family written in 1920 as a member of the Friends Mexico Mission, and a manuscript entitled 'Peace Progressive'
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