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Box 14

 Container

Contains 15 Results:

Exum Elliott Collection

 Collection — Box: 14
Identifier: SC-162

Alexander S. Starbuck Letters

 Collection — Box: 14
Identifier: SC-165
Scope and Contents

Alexander Selkirk Starbuck (1847-1865) was a native of Randolph County, Ind., who served in the 121st Indiana Regiment, Ninth Cavalry, during the Civil War. The collection consists of five letters written from Mississippi from January to June 1865, including descriptions of army life and responses to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Transferred from FMS 33, 1997.

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Nancy Davis Starnes Collection

 Collection — Box: 14
Identifier: SC-156
Scope and Contents

Nancy (Davis) Starnes (1851-1886) was a native of Hamilton County, Ind., who died in Rose Hill, Kansas. A Quaker, she lost her membership in 1877 when she divorced her husband, Browning L. Starnes. The collection consists of letters to Nancy Starnes and to her daughter Clara (Starnes) Thomas Moore Reel (1871-1957). Gift of Beatrice Thomas, 1994.

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Arend Vlaskamp Collection

 Collection — Box: 14
Identifier: SC-155
Scope and Contents

Arend Vlaskamp (1895-1974) was an accountant and Quaker of Muncie, Ind. who attended Earlham College, 1914-1917. The collection consists of material relating to his work in France as a conscientious objector with the Friends Reconstruction Unit, 1917-1919. Gift of Joseph A. Vlaskamp, 1994.

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John and Jane Walls Mss.

 Collection — Box: 14
Identifier: SC-160
Abstract

John and Jane Walls were fugitive slaves from North Carolina who passed through Indiana and were aided by Ephraim Stout (1798-1867), an anti-slavery Friend of Hamilton County, Ind. The collection consists of newspaper stories about the Walls home near Maidstone, Ontario, and a copy of an 1854 letter from Stout.

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Women's Medical College of Philadelphia History

 Collection — Box: 14
Identifier: SC-168
Scope and Contents

The Women's Medical College of Philadelphia (originally the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania) was founded in 1850 by Dr. Joseph Longshore. This unpublished history, undated, was the work of Joseph Longshore's brother, Thomas E. Longshore. Typescript.

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Andrew White Young Papers

 Collection — Box: 14
Identifier: SC-157
Scope and Contents

Andrew White Young (1802-1877) was the author of History of Wayne County, Indiana (1872). The collection consists of letters, 1871-1873, to John Davis (1823-1885) of Dalton, Wayne County, on Young's problems collecting information and securing subscribers for the book. Transferred from FMS 33.

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Micajah Henley Collection

 Collection — Box: 14
Identifier: SC-158
Scope and Contents

Micajah Henley (1857-1939) was a Quaker minister of Dublin, Ind. and the author of Divine Healing (1902). The collection consists of a teacher's license (1877) and an undated pen and ink sketch of a figure from the Book of Revelation (housed in the Art Collection). Gift of Edith Doll, 1994.

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Herschel Johnson Collection

 Collection — Box: 14
Identifier: SC-159
Scope and Contents

Herschel Johnson (1884- ) was a fundamentalist Quaker preacher and writer of Muncie, Ind. Born near Winchester, Ind., he was a member of Central Yearly Meeting. The collection consists of an autobiography and two sermons, "The Wrath of God" and "The Holy Ghost." Transferred from FMS 33.

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Ellen Gregg Pickering Papers

 Collection — Box: 14
Identifier: SC-169
Scope and Contents

This collection contains photocopies of Pickering's letters. They are also available in typescript form: Friends BX7796.P6.13.A2.1994. They were prepared by the donor, with an index and notes.

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