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Commonplace book, Union Academy, Henry County, Ind., 1858.

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1 item: "The Attitude of Friends toward Bible," undated

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John Allen (1809-1891) was a Friends minister of Deer Creek Meeting in Grant County, Ind. The diary is mainly concerned with his travels in the ministry in Indiana. There are a few miscellaneous notes, 1881-1887. Typescript included. Gift of Anita Mott Weddle and Wilda Mott DeCou, 1975.

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Letters, 1816-1837, to and by Dr. Ithamar Warner (1782-1835), an early Wayne County physician. Letters come from friends and relatives in Indiana and New York. Typescripts of originals at Wayne County Historical Society. Also included are typescripts of two newspaper articles on Warner.

Scope and Contents Abigail (Morris) Wasson (1835-1911) was an active member of Hopewell and New Castle Friends Meetings in Henry County, Ind. This collection includes her diary, 1886-1892, valuable for its accounts of everyday life and the births, marriages, and deaths of her Quaker and non-Quaker neighbors; genealogical material collected by her nephew, Samuel Heffley Morris (1845-1931) on the Morris and Heffley families; an account of the provisions of her will; and an 1858 removal certificate for her...

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"Some Incidents in the Course of My Life More Especially Occurances [sic] of Civil War Days." Typescript, ca.1935. Experiences of a Quaker, Unionist family in Guilford County, North Carolina.

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Family record of letters to Joshua Cox (1805-1868) and wife Rosannah (Cox) (1815- ), Friends who moved from Holly Spring Meeting, Randolph County, North Carolina, to Montgomery County, Ind. in 1833. Includes letters from relatives in North Carolina, 1835-1855, a letter written from the union army by E.P. Mccluskey, and a record of the family of Orion and Rose (Custer) Wilson of Darlington, Ind.

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Joseph Crosfield (1821-1879) was an English Quaker minister who traveled extensively in the US in 1845 and 1865. These extracts from his letters home, made by Norman Penney for Harlow Lindley in 1923, describe his travels through Ohio and Indiana and attendance at Indiana and Western Yearly Meetings. Includes typescripts.

Scope and Contents Naomi Painter Curl (1817-1894) was an Orthodox Friend of Pickerelltown, Logan County, Ohio. These fifty letters from friends and relatives concern personal and Quakers affairs. Included are several letters from David Hunt, Naomi's uncle and superintendent of Friends Boarding School in Richmond, Ind., and his daughter Mary D. Hunt, later Andrews. Other correspondents include Lemuel Baldwin, Sarah Cox, A.L. Curl, Charles H. Curl, Mary L. Curl. Isaac M. Gidley, Lorana Gidley, Rebecca P. Gidley,...

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Lizzie Edwards (1835-1927) was a Friend of Spiceland, Ind. who later married Asa Holloway of Spiceland. Part of the diary was kept while teaching in a freedmen's school near Vicksburg, Mississippi. Photocopy; gift of Rosemary Holloway, 1988.