Edith (Stanley) Pearson (1838-1917) was a Quaker farm wife who lived near Plainfield, Ind. and near Leavenworth and Hesper, Kansas. The scrapbook includes vital statistics, obituaries, and photographs, of the Pearson, Stanley, and Carter families and clippings re: Quaker meetings and schools in Hendricks County, Ind. Photocopy; gift of Vernon L. Dixon, 1995.

Elisha Bates (1780-1861), a native of York County, Virginia, was a prominent Friend in Ohio Yearly Meeting in the 1820s and 1830s. The collection consists of 3 items: a genealogical outline, a photocopy of a portrait of Bates, and a copy of Bates's appointment as a delegate to the World's Peace Convention in 1850.

Joseph P. Smith (1845-1937) was a Quaker farmer of Morgan County, Ohio, and Warren County Iowa. This typescript reminiscence narrates his boyhood in Ohio and life on farms in Missouri and Iowa. Transferred from D. Elton Trueblood Collection, 1995.

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.

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.

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 This unpublished history, undated, was the work of Joseph Longshore's brother, Thomas E. Longshore.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.

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.

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.

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.