Francis D. Hole Papers

Collection

Identifier: FMS-130

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Francis Doan Hole was an Earlham College alumnus, faculty member, and for many years a professor of soil science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. This collection consists largely of material on his life collected by Ellie Shacter, a Friend of San Diego, California.

Dates

1982-2002

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open without restriction.

Conditions Governing Use

Some materials may be protected by copyright. Permission to reproduce and to publish for commercial purposes must be requested from the Archivist.

Biographical or Historical Information

Hole was born in Muncie, Indiana, August 25, 1913, the younger son of Allen David Hole, professor of geology at Earlham from 1900 to 1940, and his wife Mary Doan Hole. Francis Hole graduated Earlham in 1933. He took his MA at Haverford College in 1934 and his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin in 1943. After teaching appointments at Westtown School and Earlham and alternative service as a conscientious objector during World War II he joined the faculty at Wisconsin. He taught there until he retired in 1983. He died in Madison, January 15, 2002. Hole was an active Friend who helped found the Madison Friends Meeting in 1938. He contributed articles to Quaker publications and was a regular speaker at Quaker gatherings and events. Much of the material in this collection grew out of his coauthorship with Ellie Shacter of A Little Journal of Devotions Out of Quaker Worship. In 1941 Hole married Agnes C. Calvert, also a 1933 Earlham graduate. She died in 2004.

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