Contents
Descriptive Summary
BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTE
SCOPE AND CONTENT OF THE RECORDS
SELECTED SEARCH TERMS
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS
Ser. 1. Biographical and genealogical material, 1847, n.d.
Ser. 2. Correspondence, 1796-1912
Ser. 3. Writings
Ser. 4. Miscellaneous items, 1818-1939, n.d.
Ser. 5. Photographs and pictures, 1834-1910, n.d.
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An Inventory of the Ash-Schofield Family Papers, 1888-1970
Finding Aid Prepared by FHL staff
Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
1980, 1986
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Title
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Ash-Schofield Family Papers, |
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Dates:
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1888-1970 |
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Abstract:
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Samuel Shinn Ash and his wife, Sarah J. Schofield, were prominent Quakers, active in a variety of philanthropic activities, including anti-slavery, peace, temperance, women's rights, and education. Samuel Shinn Ash was apprenticed as an engineer and machinist and worked in manufacturing. This collection consists of family papers, manuscript letters and memorabilia, largely of a domestic nature. Includes some descriptions of Meetings and religious journeys, of the early struggles of Samuel S. Ash in engineering and business, and references to the Schofield Normal and Industrial School in Aiken, S.C. of which Martha Schofield, one of the correspondents, was Manager. The exchange of letters between Mary S. Ash and her mother, Sarah Ash, describes student life at Swarthmore College in the 1890's.
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Extent:
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3 boxes; 1.5 linear ft. |
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Identification:
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RG 5/004 |
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Samuel Shinn Ash, son of Dr. Caleb and Rebecca (Shinn) Ash, was born Feb. 2, 1829, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Caleb Ash was described as a “radical Quaker and Reformer.” His marriage to Rebecca Shinn was the first to be solemnized in the new Cherry Street Meeting House; the bride's family had taken the Orthodox side in the Separation of 1827 and did not attend the ceremony.
The family moved to Darby in 1834, and here Samuel Shinn Ash received his early education. At 15, he joined the Franklin Institute, of which he remained a life-long member. Apprenticed as an engineer and machinist, he joined the firm of Howard and Son (later Howard and Ash) and subsequently worked to perfect a stamp-perforating machine for the manufacture of U.S. postage and revenue stamps. At the termination of the Government contract, he joined the furniture and upholstery firm of Amos Hillborn, where he remained until his retirement in 1897.
In 1859 he married Sarah J. Schofield, daughter of Oliver W. and Mary Jackson Schofield of Darby. Three sons and one daughter were born of this marriage, the youngest son and the daughter surviving their parents. A number of the letters in the collection concern the loss of the two older sons, at ages of 14 and 21 respectively.
Throughout their lives, Samuel Shinn Ash and his wife were active members of their Meeting. He was not only a minister much in demand for a variety of spiritual services, but they were active in a wide range of philanthropic activities, antislavery, peace and temperance movements, women's rights, and education. As clerk of the First Meeting of Friends' Educational Association, he was one of the founders of Swarthmore College. Samuel Shinn Ash died in 1911, and Sarah Ash died in 1912.
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This collection consists of family papers, manuscript letters and memorabilia, largely of a domestic nature. Includes some descriptions of Meetings and religious journeys, of the early struggles of Samuel S. Ash in engineering and business, and references to the Schofield Normal and Industrial School in Aiken, S.C., of which Martha Schofield, one of the correspondents, was Manager. The exchange of letters between Mary S. Ash and her mother, Sarah Ash, describes student life at Swarthmore College in the 1890's.
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This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Friends Historical Library (TRIPOD). Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings:
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Ser. 1. Biographical and genealogical material, 1847, n.d.
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General, includes family trees
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Extended genealogical lists handwritten
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Disownment of Oliver W. Schofield from Newtown Meeting
1847
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Ser. 2. Correspondence, 1796-1912
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Mary H. Jackson (Schofield), 1818-1869
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Box
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From her father
1818-19
Letters her father wrote her while she was a student.
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From Edward Stabler
1828-30
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To presidents and governors
1847-69
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Oliver W. and Mary H. Schofield, 1831-1859
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Correspondence with each other
1833-52
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Correspondence sent
1831-1859
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Correspondence received
1835-1852, n.d.
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Sarah Schofield Ash, 1852-1912
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Correspondence sent
1852-1863
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Correspondence sent
1871-1877
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Correspondence sent
1880-1912, n.d.
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Correspondence received
1851-1911
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Samuel Shinn Ash, 1853-1910
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Correspondence sent
1853-1859
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Correspondence sent
1861-1876
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Correspondence sent
1884-1910
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Correspondence received
1854-1877
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Correspondence received
1884-1910
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Lydia Ann Schofield, 1865-1895
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Correspondence sent
1865-1895
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Correspondence received
1871-1875.
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Mary Schofield Ash, 1892-1911
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Correspondence sent
1892-1911
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Correspondence received
1893-1911
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Miscellaneous correspondence, 1796-1840
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T. Scattergood to Jane Hough Jackson
1796
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Halliday Jackson to his bride
1801
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Mary Jackson, short verse in a letter to her father
1816
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Edward Stabler to Halliday Jackson.
1831
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Edward Hicks to John Jackson
1840
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Ser. 3. Writings
Listed by author.
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Mary H. Jackson, 1831-1874, n.d.
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Miscellaneous pieces, many original
1831-1864, n.d.
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Sarah Jane Schofield, 1850s
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Commonplace book with original pieces
1850s
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Lydia Ann Schofield, 1870s
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Box
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On her mother, Mary H. Jackson
ca. 1870s
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Diary
1894
Written while a student at Swarthmore College.
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Box
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Dissertation, “On the Christian Ministry”
1855
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Box
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Comments to London Yearly Meeting and others, notes from class “The New Covenant”,
1902
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Ser. 4. Miscellaneous items, 1818-1939, n.d.
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Miscellaneous
1818-1939
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Quaker invitations
1825-1909
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Memorabilia of G. Herbert Jenkins
Includes “Welsh Society” book and invoice.
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Piece from William Penn Treaty Tree
Given to Halliday Jackson by Mary H.J. Schofield Child.
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Ser. 5. Photographs and pictures, 1834-1910, n.d.
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Portraits and family pictures
ca. 1834-1910.
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Swarthmore College student life, Mary Schofield Ash.
ca. 1896
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