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Albert E. Ferris Papers

 Collection
Identifier: FMS-136
Scope and Contents

This collection of diaries, correspondence, clippings, and other materials documents Ferris' life and life in Wayne County, Indiana in the period.

Dates: 1927-2004; Other: Date acquired: 09/16/2004

Carpenter-Wright Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: FMS-51
Scope and Contents This collection consists of correspondence, diaries, and other papers of the family of Walter T. and Susan (Mabie) Carpenter, their daughter Caroline Mabie (Carpenter) Wright, and her husband Henry C. Wright, important Indiana Quakers and benefactors of Earlham College. The Carpenter-Wright Family Papers consist mainly of family correspondence between Walter and Susan Carpenter and Henry and Caroline Wright, with comments on Quaker affairs, life in Richmond, events relating to the response...
Dates: 1834-1910

Clarkson Parker Collection

 Collection
Identifier: FMS-44
Scope and Contents

The Clarkson Parker collection includes correspondence, diaries, business papers, and the photographs of the Parker family and of the families of Clarkson Parker's two wives: M. Josephine Macy and Laura White. There are also papers relating to John M. Macy (1806-1887) of Henry County, IN.

Dates: 1839-1990

Doudna-Bundy Collection

 Collection
Identifier: FMS-142
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of various files concerning the Doudna/Bundy families.

Dates: Other: 1925-2005

Edith Meredith Koontz Papers

 Collection
Identifier: FMS-69
Scope and Contents

The Koontz Papers includes correspondence, photographs, miscellaneous documents, and diaries of Koontz and her father, Isaac H. Meredith.

Dates: 1885-1975

Elijah Coffin Papers

 Collection
Identifier: FMS-49
Scope and Contents

The Elijah Coffin Papers consist of the diary (1848-61), correspondence, and miscellaneous papers of Elijah Coffin (1798-1862). The diary was published in 1863 as The Life of Elijah Coffin.

Dates: 1820-1911

Elwood and Luella Garner Papers

 Collection
Identifier: FMS-127
Scope and Contents The Elwood and Luella Garner Papers reflect Quaker life in Indiana at the end of the nineteenth centurry. The letters and diaries include comments on religion, education, politics, and other facets of rural life. The Garner Papers consist of four diaries kept by Elwood Garner from 1887 to 1891 and letters between Elwood and Luella before and after their marriage. Many were written while Elwood Garner was a student at the Indiana State Normal School in Terre  Haute, Indiana. Also included in...
Dates: 1887-1895

Hill-Hudelson Family Papers

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Identifier: FMS-64
Scope and Contents The Hill-Hudelson Family Papers consists of correspondence, legal and business records, photographs, and newspaper clippings of two families in Rush and Henry Counties, Indiana. The first part of the collection relates to the family of Henry Branson Hill (1807-1874) of Carthage, Indiana, and his son William Penn Hill(1832-1896) of Knightstown, Indiana. The second part of the collection relates to the family of William Penn Hill's wife, Ann Maria (Hudelson) Hill (1830-1919), especially her...
Dates: 1831-1932; Other: Date acquired: 06/06/1994

Homer and Edna Morris Collection

 Collection — Box: 42
Identifier: FMS-6
Scope and Contents

This collection reflects Homer Morris’s career as an academic economist and longtime member of the Earlham College board (1930-51),  and especially the Morris’s work for the American Friends Service Committee. It contains class notes, correspondence, calendar book and publications as well as material pertaining to personal business, social justice issues, and the peace movement. Homer Morris was a member of the teaching faculty (1918-28) in Economics, and an alum (Class of 1911).

Dates: 1911-1951

Jenkins-Dickinson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: FMS-65
Scope and Contents

The Jenkins-Dickinson Collection consists of ledgers, correspondence, and photographs relating to the family of Dr. Charles M. Jenkins (1854-1929), a prominent Richmond, Indiana, Orthodox Quaker, businessman, and optometrist. It is especially valuable for its pre-Civil War daguerreotypes of area Quakers, and unusual nineteenth-century photographs.

Dates: 1865-1910; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1993