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Earlham College

 Organization

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Homer and Edna Morris Collection

 Collection — Box: 42
Identifier: FMS-6
Scope and Contents

This collection reflects Homer Morris’s career as an academic economist and longtime member of the Earlham College board (1930-51),  and especially the Morris’s work for the American Friends Service Committee. It contains class notes, correspondence, calendar book and publications as well as material pertaining to personal business, social justice issues, and the peace movement. Homer Morris was a member of the teaching faculty (1918-28) in Economics, and an alum (Class of 1911).

Dates: 1911-1951

Thomas E. and Esther B. Jones Collection

 Collection
Identifier: FMS-21
Scope and Contents

The Thomas E. and Esther B. Jones Collection consists of personal papers of Thomas E. Jones, the president of Fisk University from 1926 to 1946 and Earlham College from 1946 to 1958, and his wife Esther (Balderston) Jones, a missionary teacher in Japan.  It contains significant material on Quaker work in Japan, race relations, Earlham College, and Quaker affairs in the twentieth century.

Dates: 1911-1974; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1992