Box 13

Family records, 1716-present, compiled mainly by Maria (Parkins) Pope (1795-1878), wife of Abner Pope (1793-1874), Hicksite Friends of Indianapolis. Included are records and memorials of members of the Pope, Parkins, and Brown families of Salem, Massachusetts, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and Loudon and Fairfax counties, Virginia. Photocopy and typescript; gift of Jane Guyton, 1993.

Individual and miscellaneous official Friends documents, such as minutes for travel, removal certificates, and disownment papers.

Gulielma (Hunnicutt) Jessup (1854-1928) was an Orthodox Friend, teacher, and farm wife, and an 1880 Earlham graduate. The collection consists of an essay, "The Old Homestead," written ca. 1925, about the home of her parents, John T. and Jane (Charles) Hunnicutt, in Wayne County, Ind. Gift of Mary (Jessup) Smith, 1973.

Individual Quaker marriage certificates.

Nancy Parker McDowell is the wife of James McDowell, professor of psychology at Earlham from 1951 to 1980. The collection consists of copies of letters written while she was teaching at the Friends School at Ramallah, Palestine, 1939-1940, and poems written for Earlham events from the 1950s to to the 1980s. Gift of Nancy McDowell, 1993.

John H. Mills (1843-1923) was a Quaker farmer who spent his life in the vicinity of Mooresville, Ind. The collection consists of his discharge certificate from the 121st Indiana Infantry, 1865. Gift of White Lick Monthly Meeting, 1993.

Joseph E. Moore (1868- ) was a native of Richmond, Ind. This autobiographical fragment deals with the family of his parents, the Moore and Bain families, and his relationship with Earlham president Joseph J. Mills.

Memorabilia of Lucretia (Coffin) Mott (1793-1880), Quaker minister, feminist, and reformer of Philadelphia. The collection consists of three photographs of Mott, an inscription written in 1878, and a letter written by Mott in 1846.

Emily Weeks was a Hicksite Friend of Mechanicsburg, Henry County, Ind. The collection consists of material relating to Spiceland Academy, a Friends School in Henry County that she attended, and to Clarkson Davis (1833-1883) and his wife, Hannah Ellen (Brown) Davis (1841-1898), teachers at Spiceland. It includes photographs, academy programs, letters to and from Clarkson and Hannah Davis, and clippings. Gift of Mrs. M.L. Crisler, 1993.

Final printed draft, with handwritten corrections by James Wood (1839-1925) of the Uniform Discipline adopted by the Five Years Meeting of Friends at its foundation in 1902. Also included is a letter from Wood to Allen D. Hole (1866-1940) concerning the document dated August 5, 1919. Transferred from Richmond First Friends, 1990.