Friendly Names in the Dictionary of American Biography

112 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION The committee was directed "to attend to and do what the said Trustees may see to be necessary." Under authority of this minute the brick schoolhouse now standing at the southeast corner of York and Penn Streets was erected shortly afterwards. It has often been said that some of the material from the hexagonal meeting house on High Street was used in the construction of the school, but I have not, as yet, found any documentary evidence to support the tradition. The building is in good condition and with the exception of the dormer window its external appearance is apparently the same as when constructed. It is the best preserved Quaker schoolhouse of the early period in South Jersey and possibly in the State. The frame schoolhouses of Springfield Meeting (now called Copany), near Jacksonville, and of Upper Springfield, near Wrightstown, are older but neither schoolhouse is in good condition. The Copany schoolhouse, used for many years as a chicken house, is in a dilapidated condition and will not last many more years. The schoolmaster's dwelling, near the schoolhouse, is still in pretty fair condition. The Upper Springfield schoolhouse, which originally stood on the northern side of the road leading to Jobstown not far from the meeting house, was moved many years ago to a near-by farm and is now used as a tenement house. FRIENDLY NAMES IN THE DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY By Anna B. Hewitt FROM TIME TO TIME in this Bulletin we have listed the names of Friends, and those with some Friendly connection , whose biographies were included in the Dictionary of American Biography. The publication of this Dictionary has now been completed, and the names printed below are those which have been selected from the last four volumes. Preceding lists have appeared in the Bulletin as follows: vol. 18 (1929) : 104 (Allen-Bradford) ; vol. 19 (1930) : 41 (Brown-Cuffe) and 99 (Darlington-Easton) ; vol. 20 (1931) : 33 (Eddy-Foster) and 94 (Furnas-Grellett) ; vol. 21 (1932): 36 (Griscom-Hewes) ; vol. 24 (1935): 94-98 (Hicks-Sellers). QUAKER BIOGRAPHIES113 Volume XVII Sharpless, Isaac (1848-1920) : College president and Quaker leader. Shippen, Edward (1639-1712) : Mayor of Philadelphia. Shreve, Henry Miller (1785-1851) : Steamboat captain. Shreve, Thomas Hopkins (1808-1853) : Writer and editor. Silver, Thomas (1813-1888) : Civil engineer and inventor. Smedley, William Thomas (1858-1920) : Portrait painter. Smiley, Albert Keith (1828-1912) : Educator and humanitarian. Smith, Albert Holmes (1835-1885) : Physician. Smith, Daniel B. (1792-1883) : Educator and pharmacist. Smith, Hannah Whitall (1832-1911) : Author and religious interpreter. Smith, Hiram (1817-1890) : Agriculturist. Smith, John Jay (1798-1881) : Editor and librarian. Smith, Lloyd Pearsall ( 1822-1886) : Librarian and editor. Smith, Oliver Hampton (1794-1859) : Lawyer and Congressman. Smith, Richard (1735-1803) : Member of Continental Congress. Sproul, William Cameron (1870-1928) : Governor and manufacturer. Squibb, Edward Robinson (1819-1900) : Physician and pharmacist. Starr, Louis (1849-1925) : Physician. Stephens, Alice Barber (1858-1932) : Illustrator. Volume XVIII Sunderland, Eliza Jane Read (1839-1910) : Lecturer and writer. Swan, Joseph Rockwell (1802-1884) : Jurist and legal writer. Swayne, Noah Haynes (1804-1884) : Jurist. Taylor, Bayard (1825-1878) : Traveller, translator and man of letters. Taylor, Joseph Wright (1810-1880) : Founder of Bryn Mawr College. Terry, Milton Spenser (1840-1914) : Methodist clergyman. Thomas, John Jacobs (1810-1895) : Author, editor and pomologist. Thomas, Joseph (1811-1899) : Lexicographer, educator and physician. Thomas, Philip Evan (1776-1861) : Railroad pioneer, Thomas, Richard Henry (1854-1904) : Religious leader and physician. Thompson, Jeremiah (1784-1835) : Merchant and ship-owner. Thomson, John Edgar (1808-1874) : Railroad president. Townsend, John Kirk (1809-1851) : Ornithologist. Townsend, Mira Sharpless (1798-1859) : Philanthropist. Volume XIX Trueblood, Benjamin Franklin (1847-1916) : Educator and peace worker. Turner, Charles Yardley (1850-1918) : Mural painter. Tyndale, Hector (1821-1880) : Merchant and Union soldier. Tyson, James (1841-1919) : Physician. Updegraff, David Brainard (1830-1894) : Quaker preacher. Vail, Aaron (1796-1878) : Diplomat. Vail, Theodore Newton (1845-1920) : Telephone and utilities executive. Vaux, Richard (1816-1895) : Lawyer, public official, and penologist. 114 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Vaux, Roberts (1786-1836) : Philanthropist and author. Venable, William Henry (1836-1920) : Teacher and writer. Wait, William (1821-1880) : Lawyer and writer on law. Wain, Nicholas (1742...