Box 9
Contains 22 Results:
Thomas Alexander Papers
This collection consists of three leaves of the records of the family of Thomas Alexander, born in 1781 in Yorkshire, England.
Lydia Thomas Baldwin Collection
Lydia (Thomas) Baldwin (1814-1899), wife of Thomas Baldwin (1813-1899), was an Orthodox Friend who lived near Fairmount in Grant County, Ind. The collection consists of a reminiscence written in 1897, with a transcript. Subjects include early Quaker settlers of Grant County, the Underground Railroad, Anti-Slavery Friends, and pioneer life. Gift of Don and Janet Hoke Garner, 1992.
Joel Bean Collection
Joel Bean (1825-1914) was a prominent Gurneyite Friend of West Branch, Iowa and San Jose, California, and a leading critic of revivalism among Friends in the 1880s and 1890s. This collection consists of a copy of his entry in the Haverford Dictionary of Quaker Biography, and a copy of a 1906 letter on the Revival movement.
Isabel Albertson Autograph Book
Isabel Albertson (1816-1856) was an Orthodox Friend of Blue River Monthly Meeting, Washington County, Ind., the daughter of Dr. Benjamin and Sarah (Parker) Albertson. In 1834 she married William N. Trueblood (1809-1901). This autograph book contains sentiments from other Blue River Friends.
Joseph Bond Family Collection
Joseph Bond (1785-1864) and wife Sarah (Mendenhall) Bond (1790-1848) were Hicksite Friends living at Goshen, Wayne County, Ind. This collection consists of a family record and their marriage certificate from Deep River Monthly Meeting, Guilford County, North Carolina.
Ethel Publow White Collection
Earlham class of 1911; consists of classbook from Spiceland Academy, 1909-1910.
George Fox Bowles Collection
George Fox Bowles (1795-1874) was a Friend born in North Carolina, who lived in Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa. The collection consists of a genealogy of the Bowles family and of George F. Bowles's wife's family, the Baileys, and of a reminiscence of the Bowles family's settlement near Richmond, Ind. in 1807. This copy was made ca. 1913 by Luella White Rockwell. It also includes sketches of th Beard and Cox families, early Quaker settlers in Wayne County.
Issac Bowman Collection
Issac Bowman and wife Ann were the last Friends residing in Massilon, Ohio. This description, undated, was apparently written by a "Mrs. S. Smith."
John Bright Collection
John Bright (1811-1889) was an English Friend and Liberal member of Parliament. This collection consists of miscellaneous manuscripts concerning Bright, including an account by Augustine Jones (1834-1925) of Providence, Rhode Island.
John Butler Collection
John Butler (1803-1887) was an elder and influential Gurneyite Friend of Damascus, Ohio. This collection consists of an Ohio Yearly Meeting Memorial (1890) and a typescript of Butler's diary for December 9-15, 1859, while traveling to Richmond, Virginia, with a petition for the pardon of Edwin Coppoc, one of John Brown's men.