An 1888 newspaper photo of the Women's Mutual Improvement Association proclaimed in the caption that members "Represent the Sterling Qualities of American Womanhood." They gather here at the Thomas home Tanglewood. Among members attending are, front row, Elizabeth Porter Thomas, Rebecca Porter Thomas; back row, Martha Stabler Peirce, Susanah Leggett Thomas, Nellie Lansdale Hartshorne, Ellen Farquhar, Lucy Stabler, Mary Stabler Miller, Ellen Stabler, Annie Gilpin, Martha Thomas Farquhar, Sarah Kirk Stabler, Mary Ellicott Gilpin, and Harriet Iddings Kirk. Alban Gilpin Thomas joined the group for the photo.

Missionary of the Grange movement, Quaker Joseph T. Moore organized lodges of the Patrons of Husbandry at Olney and Brighton in 1873-74 and served as first president of the Maryland Grange. He was President and a guiding force of the Mutual Insurance Company.