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Vernon Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: FMS-48
Scope and Contents

The Vernon Family Papers consist of correspondence, business documents, and genealogical material relating to the family of Richard Vernon (1789-1877) of Stokes County, NC and Jefferson County, IN. The correspondence includes letters from relatives in Texas, Alabama, Tennessee, and North Carolina with comments on farming, slavery, business, and the coming of the Civil War.

Dates: 1849-1990

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...
Dates: 1794-1951; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1994

Willard Heiss Collection

 Collection
Identifier: FMS-33
Scope and Contents

The Heiss Collection consists of extensive files on Quaker history and genealogy, as well as correspondence, photos, personal artifacts, and documents reflecting the lives of Quakers, especially in the Midwest and South. Photos include family, as well as landscapes. Correpsondence ranges from book companies, to family, to genealogical.

Dates: 1700-1986

Wilmer Cooper Papers

 Collection
Identifier: FMS-162
Scope and Contents

The collection contains writings by Wilmer Cooper, papers of various Quaker organizations of which Cooper was active, Earlham School of Religion materials, personal correspondence, and some miscellaneous material.

Dates: 1958-2009; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1998

Wollaston-Bassett-White Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: FMS-163
Abstract

Correspondence, legal papers, genealogy, and photographs of six generations of the Wollaston, Bassett, White, and related families, Hicksite Friends of Salem County, New Jersey, and Harrisburg and Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Dates: 1697-1950; Other: Majority of material found in 1790-1860; Other: Date acquired: 06/23/2010

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