1827 - 1899 (72 years)
Has 2 ancestors and 3 descendants in this family tree.
1827 - 1899 (72 years)
Birth |
1827 |
Died |
1899 |
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Father |
John Jay Smith |
Mother |
Rachel Pearsall |
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Family |
Hannah Tatum Whitall, b. 07 Feb 1832 |
Married |
11 May 1851 |
Children |
| 1. Alys Pearsall Smith, b. 1867, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 2. Logan Pearsall Smith |
| 3. Mary Smith |
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1832 - 1911 (79 years)
Birth |
07 Feb 1832 |
Died |
01 May 1911 |
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Father |
John Mickle Whitall, b. 1800, Woodbury, Gloucester, New Jersey, USA |
Mother |
Mary Tatum |
Married |
11 May 1830 |
Woodbury Friends Meeting |
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Family |
Robert Pearsall Smith, b. 1827 |
Married |
11 May 1851 |
Children |
| 1. Alys Pearsall Smith, b. 1867, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 2. Logan Pearsall Smith |
| 3. Mary Smith |
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Family |
Rachel Pearsall |
Children |
+ | 1. Robert Pearsall Smith, b. 1827 |
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Family |
John Jay Smith |
Children |
+ | 1. Robert Pearsall Smith, b. 1827 |
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1832 - 1911 (79 years)
Birth |
07 Feb 1832 |
Died |
01 May 1911 |
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Father |
John Mickle Whitall, b. 1800, Woodbury, Gloucester, New Jersey, USA |
Mother |
Mary Tatum |
Married |
11 May 1830 |
Woodbury Friends Meeting |
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Family |
Robert Pearsall Smith, b. 1827 |
Married |
11 May 1851 |
Children |
| 1. Alys Pearsall Smith, b. 1867, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 2. Logan Pearsall Smith |
| 3. Mary Smith |
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1867 - 1951 (84 years)
Birth |
1867 |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
Died |
22 Jan 1951 |
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Father |
Robert Pearsall Smith, b. 1827 |
Mother |
Hannah Tatum Whitall, b. 07 Feb 1832 |
Married |
11 May 1851 |
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Family |
Earl Bertrand Russell, b. 18 May 1872, Trelleck, Gwent |
Married |
13 Dec 1894 |
December 13, 1894 in the Quaker Meeting House in St. Martin's Lane, London, England |
Divorced |
1921 |
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Father |
Robert Pearsall Smith, b. 1827 |
Mother |
Hannah Tatum Whitall, b. 07 Feb 1832 |
Married |
11 May 1851 |
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Father |
Robert Pearsall Smith, b. 1827 |
Mother |
Hannah Tatum Whitall, b. 07 Feb 1832 |
Married |
11 May 1851 |
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Family 1 |
Frank Costelloe |
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Family 2 |
Bernard Berenson |
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Name |
Robert Pearsall Smith |
Birth |
1827 |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
1899 |
Person ID |
I679486 |
Geneagraphie |
Last Modified |
24 Jul 2010 |
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Notes |
- a lay leader in the Holiness movement in the United States and the Higher Life movement in Great Britain. His book Holiness Through Faith (1870) is one of the foundational works of the Holiness movement. He was also a businessman in the Philadelphia area, publishing maps and managing a glass factory.
Smith was from a long line of influential Quakers, in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He was a descendant of John Smith, who started one of the first insurance companies in Philadelphia and was one of the founders of the Philadelphia Hospital. He was also a descendant of James Logan, secretary of William Penn and the founder of the first lending library in America, the Loganian Library.
During the 1840s, Robert?s father was the librarian of the Philadelphia Library Company, which now had oversight of their ancestral library, the Loganian. The library employed the prestigious architect and surveyor, James Charles Sidney. Sidney also produced maps that Robert published. Many of these maps are now valuable historical artifacts.
In 1851 Smith married Hannah Tatum Whitall, a woman who also descended from a line of prominent Quakers in the region. The Smiths settled in Germantown, Pennsylvania. They were much influenced by Methodist revivalists, and adopted the Wesleyan doctrine of sanctification. They were also influenced by William E. Boardman, who wrote The Higher Christian Life (1859).
From 1864 to 1868, Robert and Hannah Smith lived in Millville, New Jersey. Robert managed Hannah's father's business, the Whitall, Tatum & Company glass factories.
William Boardman apparently groomed Robert and Hannah Smith to join the Holiness movement as speakers. From 1873 to 1874 they spoke at various places in England, including Oxford, teaching on the subjects of the "higher life" and "holiness". In 1874 the Smiths traveled to Germany and Switzerland, where they preached in several major cities. In 1875 they returned to England and conducted meetings in Brighton. After an unspecified scandal involving Robert, their visit to England came to an abrupt halt.
In 1888 the Smith family moved to England when their daughter Mary married an Irish barrister, Frank Costelloe; she later married Bernard Berenson. There their daughter Alys Pearsall Smith met and married the philosopher Bertrand Russell. Their son Logan Pearsall Smith became an essayist and critic.
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