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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
Beales Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: FMS-122
Scope and Contents
The papers in this collection are drawn from materials donated to Conner Prairie by the Beales family. They include letters, land records, travel diaries, and miscellaneous materials. Covering the years 1800 to 1881, the materials offer valuable insights into pioneer life, business and real estate matters, and Quaker religious life in Ohio, Indiana and Missouri.
Correspondence covers the years 1800 to 1881 and is rich in description of family matters, religious life, and the trials and...
Dates:
1800-1881
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
Elkanah Beard Papers
Collection
Identifier: FMS-19
Scope and Contents
The Elkanah Beard Papers consist of two diaries kept by Elkanah Beard, a prominent Gurneyite Quaker minister of Winchester, Indiana, from 1868 to 1875 and 1877 to 1878. They reflect his participation in the missionary and revival movement that swept Gurneyite meetings in the Midwest in the 1870s.
Dates:
1868-1878; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1980
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
Henry Wilson Papers
Collection
Identifier: FMS-47
Scope and Contents
The Henry Wilson Papers reflect the life of a "weighty" Friend in southern Indiana in the first half of the nineteenth century. Although small, the collection is an important source for the migration of North Carolina Friends to Indiana.
The most important item in the collection is Henry Wilson's autobiography, written in 1860. It provides an almost unique glimpse into the life of a Quaker child in North Carolina and an early Quaker settler in Indiana. Wilson apparently kept a series...
Dates:
1791-1911; Other: Date acquired: 01/06/1990
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
Marcus Mote Collection
Collection
Identifier: FMS-5
Scope and Contents
The Mote Collection consists of diaries, notebooks, correspondence, and works by Mote, as well as research material on Mote gathered by former Earlham College archivist, Opal Thornburg.
Dates:
1840-1898
Nathan Wesley Wright Diaries
Collection
Identifier: FMS-70
Scope and Contents
The Wright diaries consists of diaries for the years 1879-1885.
Dates:
1879-1885
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