Quakers
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 34 Collections and/or Records:
Morgan County, Indiana collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2093
Scope and Contents
This collection contains various items related to Morgan County, Indiana and its communities. Folder 1 includes a handwritten list of fourteen historical firsts regarding Mooresville, Indiana from an April 21, 1902 letter possibly written by Ida Fogleman; a circa 1960 typewritten essay by an unknown author about the establishment of the Mooresville School by the White Lick Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends; and a photostat copy of a 1958 typewritten history of the Morgantown Methodist...
Dates:
1902-1970
Percival Brooks Coffin collection
Collection — Box 1-2
Identifier: G-079
Scope and Contents
This collection includes genealogical charts, correspondence, research, and published materials from William Edward and Percival Brooks Coffin in the United States ranging from 1847 to 1921 regarding the Coffin family.
Dates:
1847-1921
Found in:
Genealogy
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Percival Brooks Coffin collection
Phillip Price collection
Collection — Folder S1083
Identifier: S1083
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence written in 1850 and 1859. The four-page letter was written from Philadelphia on September 10, 1850 to "My Dear Brother" from Phillip Price, who was a Quaker. The second letter was written to "My Dear Mother," on February 28, 1859, from William Price, in Cincinnati. He wrote: "Poor Fanny [last name illegible] -- whom thee may recollect as the forlorn old woman residing in the cottage on the hills -- was killed yesterday on the Hamilton and...
Dates:
1850-1859
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Phillip Price collection
Quaker meeting records collection
Collection
Identifier: L467
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises materials Webster Parry collected from Society of Friends monthly meetings, beginning in the 1880s. He compiled the information into separate record books for each Quaker community, not only from Indiana but also Miami County, Ohio. The information includes births, marriages, and deaths, beginning in 1708 and continuing through 1928 when he donated them to the Indiana State Library. The books were microfilmed in April 1964.
Dates:
1880-1928
Sarah Ann Hampton Johnson collection
Collection — Folder S2498
Identifier: S2498
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of photocopied pages from Sarah Ann's autograph book while she was a student at the Friends' Boarding School from 1850 to 1852. Each of the students who wrote in her book signed their name, town, and date of entry. Mary M. Henley wrote: "May each season of this changeful life come frought to thee with some new blessings richer than that which has gone by, and the tides of thy early sensations as they subside in the truths of experience give place to these enjoyments...
Dates:
1850-1852
Society of Friends Church history collection
Collection
Identifier: L190
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence and completed survey forms from various individuals in Indiana and elsewhere in 1932 regarding the history of the Society of Friends education in Indiana and the Society of Friends church records in Indiana ranging from 1865 to 1944 regarding church history and memberships.
Dates:
1865-1944
Stubbs and Mendenhall family collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: G-054
Scope and Contents
This collection includes genealogical research from Lewis D. Stubbs and Ada Stubbs Bernhardt in Indiana and Ohio ranging from 1884 to 1964 regarding the Stubbs, Mendenhall and other allied families.
Dates:
1884 - 1964
Found in:
Genealogy
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Stubbs and Mendenhall family collection
Thomas Mills Carter collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2516
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 25 manuscripts of articles written by Thomas Mills Carter for his column "It Takes All Kinds," published in the Bulletin of American Historical Collection, a quarterly periodical was published by the American Association of the Philippines. There are also two issues of the Bulletin from October, 1977 (vol. 5, no. 4) and January-March, 1978 (vol. 6, no.1). The articles offer character sketches and vignettes of American culture during the late 1940s and early 1950s. There...
Dates:
1977-1978
Thomas Scattergood Teas biography
Collection — Folder S1291
Identifier: S1291
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises biographical materials and a personal narrative from Thomas Scattergood Teas of Henry County, Indiana ranging from 1917 to 1941, regarding his family and early life.
Dates:
1917-1941
Wayne County collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1708
Scope and Contents
This collection contains several items related to education in Wayne County, Indiana, including Joshua Williams's "Articles of Agreement" contract to teach school in the county for twelve months starting on November 3, 1828, photostat copies of articles of agreement to teach school for William Boroughs in 1835 and Vernon Ham 1837, a photostat copy of James Donelan's attendance records for his students in District 5 from 1849, Louisa A. Culbertson's teaching certificate signed by examiner A.C....
Dates:
1828-1957, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Wayne County collection
