Matlack family genealogy, undated MC.975.10.006 Finding aid prepared by Mary A. Crauderueff This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit April 06, 2016 Describing Archives: A Content Standard Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections January 2016 370 Lancaster Ave Haverford, PA, 19041 610-896-1161 hc-special@haverford.edu
Table of Contents Summary Information... 3 Biographical note...4... 4 Administrative Information...4 Related Materials... 5 Controlled Access Headings...5 Collection Inventory... 6 - Page 2 -
Summary Information Repository Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections Creator Matlack family Creator - Author Matlack, Asa, 1783-1851 Creator - Author Stackhouse, Asa Matlack, 1845-1916 Title Matlack family genealogy Date Undated, 1895 Extent 0.67 Linear feet Language English Preferred Citation Matlack family genealogy (MC.975.10.006), Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, PA. - Page 3 -
Biographical note Asa Matlack Stackhouse (1845-1916) was born in Philadelphia on July 21, 1845, the son of Robert Stackhouse and Ann Roberts Matlack. He received his early education in public and private schools in Moorestown, New Jersey. In 1863 Stackhouse entered the class as a junior in the Class of 1865. In 1868 he was awarded both an A. M. from the University as well as an M. D. from the Homeopathathic Medical College (later Hahnemann Medical College), Philadelphia. The following December, Stackhouse married Ella Jane Romig, the daughter of William Jacob Romig, a doctor at Jefferson Medical College. They were married in Allentown, Pennsylvania where Stackhouse practiced medicine until 1871; he then engaged in the insurance business until his retirement in 1891. A member of a number of historical and geneological societies, Stackhouse served for many years as the curator of the Burlington County (New Jersey) Historical Society. He was also the author of a number of published geneologies and histories, including Maladies, Remedies and Physicians of Colonial Days in Burlington County New Jersey and a biography of one of his ancestors, Timothy Matlack. Stackhouse died on October 16, 1916, in Moorestown, New Jersey. Source: Penn Biographies, Penn University Archives & Records Center This collection is comprised of five items, which originally came from MC 1120. The materials are all genealogical in subject, and were mostly compiled by Asa Matlack and Asa Matlack Stackhouse. Administrative Information Publication Information Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections January 2016 Use Restrictions Standard Federal Copyright Law Applies (U.S. Title 17). Acquisition - Page 4 -
Items were removed from collection 1120 at an unknown date. Processing Information Processed by Mary A. Crauderueff; completed January 2016. Related Materials Related Materials MC 975.03.053 Matlack family commonplace book MC 975.07.115 Asa M. Stackhouse manuscripts MC 975.08.017 Matlack family financial records MC 975.11.033 Matlack family notebooks MC.975.01.044 Mordecai Matlack diaries MC 1120 Matlack family papers Controlled Access Headings Genre(s) Family papers. Subject(s) Genealogy Quakers Family relationships Quakers--New Jersey - Page 5 -
Collection Inventory Genealogical notes of the Matlack Family 1895 This volume is a typed and bound narrative and notes for the Matlack family. It was compiled in Camden, New Jersey in 1895, perhaps by William R. Stackhouse. It gives attention to the descendants of Reuben and Elizabeth Matlack, and William and Mary Hancock Matlack, who came to the United States in 1677. Asa Matlack Collection, Volume II Undated This volume is a collection of smaller noteboks that have been bound together, with the family story and genealogy of the Matlack family. It includes a typed index in the back, and a note in the front that reads "includes book No.s 1-5-8- and another." Asa Matlack Collection Undated This volume is a collection of smaller noteboks that have been bound together, with the family story and genealogy of the Matlack family. It includes a typed index in the back. Genealogical records of various families Undated - Page 6 -
This volume is a collection of genearlogical records, possibly created by Asa Matlack Stackhouse. It contains information about the Lippincott, Heritage, Stokes, Warrington, Ellis, Hollinshead, Thom, Coate, Burr, Atkinson, Spicer, Rudderow, and Burrough families, along with birth, death, and marriage records. Miscellaneous Genealogical information Undated This volume was created by Asa Matlack Stackhouse, and contains miscellaneous genealogical and related information. - Page 7 -