Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Huff-Nixon family papers consist of correspondence, legal and business papers, reminiscences, clippings, and genealogical materials of five generations of Quaker families in North Carolina and Indiana. Most of the material concerns the families of Samuel Nixon (1781-1865), his son-in-law Daniel Huff (1816-1899), and his son Dr. Oliver Nixon Huff (1852-1937) of Fountain City, Indiana, and Oliver Nixon Huff's wife, Sophia (Bogue) Huff (1866-1931). The oldest material in the Nixon-Huff...

Scope and Contents Scrapbook (photocopy of original retained by Kathleen (Barnes) Kaeuper) compiled ca. 1883 by Emily Jane (Nixon) Huff. It consists largely of correspondence, with some business and legal papers, leaflets, essays, and poetry. Correspondents include Emily J. Nixon, Robert B. Butler, Jeremiah Hubbard, David Nixon, Benjamin Albertson, Joseph Hubbard, and Woodson and Susannah Hubbard. Also included is a 1789 epistle of Philadelphia Yearly meeting to George Washington, with his reply, a pre-1771...