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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 of...
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
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
Jessup-Carson-Littler Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: FMS-35
Scope and Contents
The Jessup-Carson-Littler Family papers consist of correspondence, legal papers, notebooks, autograph books, ledgers, and genealogical material on five generations of Quakers in Howard and Marion counties, Indiana. The collection reflects Quaker farm and religious life in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Dates:
1831-1984; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1997
John T. White Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: FMS-72
Scope and Contents
The John T. White Family Papers consist of diaries, correspondence, business and legal papers, genealogical material, photographs, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and other writings of six generations of a prominent Quaker family in Perquimans and Pasquotank counties in North Carolina and in Henry County, Indiana. The papers document the daily activities of Quakers in business, education, and family life. They also illustrate the relations of North Carolina Quakers with African Americans who...
Dates:
1780-1960
Lawrie-Tatum-Stanley Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: FMS-120
Scope and Contents
The Lawrie-Tatum-Stanley Family Papers consist of diaries, correspondence, commonplace books, financial records, genealogical materials, and other documents of several generations of Quaker families in Scotland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. They are especially rich in materials on Orthodox Friends in the period of the Hicksite Separation of 1827-1828 and its immediate aftermath. Of particular interest, however, is one of the earliest documents in the collection, a proposal, probably ca....
Dates:
1674-2004; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/2004
Leland K. and Kathaleen Johnson Carter Papers
Collection
Identifier: FMS-34
Scope and Contents
The Leland K. and Kathaleen Johnson Carter Collection consists of correspondence, diaries, photographs, and genealogical material documenting the lives of a number of Quaker families in North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, and Kansas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The collection is especially valuable for Quaker settlement in Indiana, the Conservative Separation of the 1870s among Orthodox Friends, and the work of the Friends Reconstruction unit in France during World War I. The...
Dates:
1700-1994; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1991
Leonard S. Kenworthy Papers
Collection — Box: 9
Identifier: FMS-76
Scope and Contents
The Leonard S. Kenworthy Papers includes correspondence and drafts of writings reflecting Leonard Kenworthy's career.
Dates:
1928-1991
Warner-Winder-Calvert Papers
Collection
Identifier: FMS-78
Scope and Contents
The Warner-Winder-Calvert Papers consist of account books, diaries, letters, photographs, and other manuscripts of six generations of Quaker families in Ross and Clark counties, Ohio. The most significant materials reflect farm life in the Midwest in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The earliest document in the collection is the account book of John Winder (1736-1819), a Friend born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, who married Margaret Briggs (1740-1812). In 1795 he led a party of...
Dates:
1794-1951; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1994
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