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.

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.

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.

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.