Elizabeth (Nicholson) Reynolds (1841-1927) was a Quaker farm wife of Dalton Township, Wayne County, Ind. She kept a diary from 1878 until her death in 1927. This collection consists of an abstract covering the years 1878-1902. It describes rural life in the period and marriages and deaths in the community. One peculiarity is that the childless Reynolds never noted births. Gift of Mary Wright Dennis, 1990.

Mary Rogers (ca. 1786-1838) was an Orthodox Friend and Elder of Westland Monthly Meeting in Washington County, Pennsylvania. The collection consists of a memorial of Westland Monthly Meeting describing her last illness and death, 1838. Transferred from the Harlow Lindley Collection.

William Rotch (1734-1828) was a prominent Quaker merchant and shipowner of Nantucket. The collection consists of notes on his life made by Augustine Jones (1834-1925). Gift of Caroline Jones Woodman.

Elwood C. Siler (1831-1896) was a prominent Gurneyite Quaker minister and revivalist of Parke County, Ind. The collection consists of photocopies of his marriage certificate, 1852, to Martha Morris, entries from the Siler family Bible, and a dim photograph.

Nathan Trueblood (1781-1871) and William N. Trueblood (1809-1901) were Orthodox Friends and farmers of Washington County, Ind. The collection consists of deeds, mortgages, and correspondence, 1817-1857. Gift of Mrs. Noble C. Trueblood.

This collection consists of papers of the Updegraff family of Mount Pleasant, Ohio. The Updegraffs were prominent members of Ohio Yearly Meeting (Gurneyite). The collection consists of deeds made to Nathan Updegraff (1758-1827), a member of the Ohio constitutional convention of 1802 and one of the first Friends to settle at Mt. Pleasant, and letters of his grandson, David B. Updegraff (1830-1894), a well-known minister and evangelist. Probably acquired by Harlow Lindley.

Hannah (Allen) Warner, an Orthodox Friend of Philadelphia, was born in 1814 and died there in 1872. This memorial recounts her life and deathbed testimony.

Miscellaneous material relating to the Quaker poet, apparently collected by Augustine Jones (1834-1925) of Providence, Rhode Island. Included are clippings, reminiscences, and copies of correspondence between Jones and Whittier, ca. 1868-1892.Also signatures by Whittier. Mostly gift of Caroline Jones Woodman.

William Robinson Wilson (1844-1940) was a Quaker farmer, teacher, and businessman of Henry County, Ind. Born in Perquimans County, North Carolina, he came to Wayne County, Ind. with his widowed mother in 1854 and, with the exception of a short period in Kansas in the 1860s, spent the rest of his life there and in Henry County. The collection consists of a photocopy of an autobiography written about 1928, concentrating on his life before 1890.

George P. Emswiler (1830-1898) was a Richmond merchant and local historian, best known for his Poems and Sketches (1897), which includes a number of reminiscences of Richmond, Ind. before the Civil War. The collection consists of two reminiscences of Richmond that are included, slightly revised in Poems and Sketches.