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Box 21

 Container

Contains 12 Results:

Ohio Yearly Meeting Collection

 Collection — Box: 21
Identifier: SC-235
Scope and Contents

The Ohio Yearly Meeting Collection consists of manuscripts relating to Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative) and its predecessor bodies. Included is a manuscript account of the 1873 yearly meeting session, probably written by a Philadelphia Friend.

Dates: 1813-

Alice Peckham Rathbone Collection

 Collection — Box: 21
Identifier: SC-241
Scope and Contents

Alice (Peckham) Rathbone (1780-1845) was a recorded minister in New England Yearly Meeting of Friends who lived at Smithfield, Rhode Island, and Berwick, Maine. This collection consists of two travel diaries: an 1816 visit to New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Ohio yearly meetings; and an 1820 visit to New York and Philadelphia yearly meetings. Also included is genealogical material on these families, including charts filed separately. Gift, 2004.

Dates: 1816-1820

Barton T. Reynolds Account Book

 Collection — Box: 21
Identifier: SC-231
Scope and Contents

Barton T. Reynolds (1837-1928) was a farmer who also operated a threshing machine in Wayne County, Ind. This account book is largely concerned with income and expenses of the threshing business of Reynolds and Wickersham, but it also includes some personal accounts. Purchase from Craig Wiechman, 2003.

Dates: 1859-1867

Wayne County, Indiana, Seminary Fine Account Book

 Collection — Box: 21
Identifier: SC-233
Scope and Contents

Ledger with accounts of fines received from Wayne County justices of the peace for offenses such as assault and battery, affray, public profanity, and retailing without a license. Accounts usually include the name of the offender, the offense, the fine, the justice of the peace collecting it, and the date the fine was turned over to the seminary fund. Includes typescript. Purchased from Craig Wiechman, 2003.

Dates: 1819-1831

Joseph Foulke, Jr., Letters

 Collection — Box: 21
Identifier: SC-232
Scope and Contents

Joseph Foulke, Jr. (1827-1906) was a Hicksite Quaker teacher and physician who spent most of his life in the Philadelphia area but died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Most of these letters date from 1845 to 1848 and concern Quaker schools. Several are from Joesph Foulke Jr.'s brother Thomas Foulke (1817-1888) of New York City, the father of William Dudley Foulke (1850-1935), the Richmond, Ind., editor and author. Purchase from Southern Cross Books, 2003.

Dates: 1845-1869

Sara E. Hadley Letters

 Collection — Box: 21
Identifier: SC-238
Scope and Contents

Sara E. Hadley (1918-1995), a Kansas Friend, was a teacher in the Friends School at Ramallah, Palestine, in 1946-1947. These letters to her family include unusually detailed accounts of life in Palestine in the last days of the British Mandate. Hadley comments on Quaker affairs, local customs, politics, and terrorism.

Dates: 1945-1947; Other: Date acquired: 05/10/2004

Leeds Family Collection

 Collection — Box: 21
Identifier: SC-240
Scope and Contents

Records of the family of Samuel Leeds (1783-1855) of Burlington County, New Jersey, with miscellaneous manuscripts and pamphlets found in a family Bible. Gift of Marjorie Ewbank, 2004.

Dates: Other: Add Date

Nathaniel W. Koontz Collection

 Collection — Box: 21
Identifier: SC-242
Scope and Contents

Nathaniel W. Koontz (born 1860) was a farmer who resided in Henry and Rush counties, Indiana. This collection consists of letters written to Koontz by friends and relatives in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana.

Dates: 1880-1891; Other: Date acquired: 03/24/2004

Sanford Lackey Account Book

 Collection — Box: 21
Identifier: SC-236
Scope and Contents

Sanford Lackey (1809-1887) was a merchant in Cambridge City, Ind. This account book lists his customers and transactions 1839-1841. Photocopy, gift of Thomas and Peg Mayhill, 2003.

Dates: 1839-1866; Majority of material found within 1839-1844

Elihu Swain Diary

 Collection — Box: 21
Identifier: SC-237
Scope and Contents

Elihu Swain (1795-1839), a native of Guilford County, North Carolina, was an Orthodox Friend of Union County, Ind. His diaries for 1826-1827 and 1836-1837 describe farming, clearing land, and other aspects of Indiana life in the period. Purchase, 2005.

Dates: 1826-1837