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Esther Griffin White Papers
Collection — Box: 8
Identifier: FMS-9
Scope and Contents
Esther Griffin White's papers include correspondence, copies of writing, files pertaining to the Little Paper, and clippings reflecting her varied interests and career.
Dates:
1867-1954
Fred E. Smith Collection
Collection
Identifier: FMS-37
Scope and Contents
This collection, although small, contains invaluable material documenting the history of pastoral Friends, especially in Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio.
Dates:
1906-1959; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1987
Harlow Lindley Collection
Collection
Identifier: FMS-4
Scope and Contents
The Harlow Lindley Collection, although relatively small, is rich in material related to Quaker history and the history of Wayne County, Indiana, especially its educational history.The collection consists of historical materials collected by Lindley and of Lindley’s correspondence with such prominent nineteenth- and twentieth-century Friends as Charles F. Coffin, Joel Bean, Allen Jay, Timothy Nicholson, and Barnabas C. Hobbs.
The materials in the collection reflect Lindley’s interest in United...
Dates:
1788-1957
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
Joseph R. Evans Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: FMS-82
Scope and Contents
The Joseph R. Evans Family Collection consists of correspondence, photographs, and genealogical material on a Quaker family that was central to the founding and development of Earlham College. It also documents Quaker reactions to the Civil War, and contains some of the best pre-1900 photographs known of the campus.
Dates:
1834-1993; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1993
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
Mordecai M. and Francis T. White Papers
Collection
Identifier: FMS-10
Scope and Contents
The White Papers consist of correspondence, legal papers, and photographs as well as genealogical materials. Of special interest are photographs and letters of slaves liberated by the Whites in North Carolina.
Dates:
1731-1950
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
Wildman-White Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: FMS-128
Scope and Contents
This collection of legal documents, photographs, and genealogical material deals with several generations of Orthodox Quaker families in the Green Plain community of Clark County, Ohio, and in Raysville, Henry County, Indiana.
Dates:
1827-1973; Other: Date acquired: 09/04/2001
Willis B. Coale Papers
Collection
Identifier: FMS-129
Scope and Contents
Willis Branson Coale (1885-1979) was a birthright Hicksite Friend, Congregational minister, English professor at the University of Hawaii, and genealogist. This collection documents his life and preserves material that he collected for Coale family history.
The Coale Papers consist of two main groups of material. The first reflects the life of Willis B. Coale, and includes autobiographical writings, clippings, and published and unpublished materials on his life in Illinois, at Oberlin, and in...
Dates:
1885-1977
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