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Huff-Nixon Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: FMS-15

Scope and Contents The Huff-Nixon family papers consist of correspondence, legal and business papers, reminiscences, clippings, and genealogical materials of five generations of Quaker families in North Carolina and Indiana. Most of the material concerns the families of Samuel Nixon (1781-1865), his son-in-law Daniel Huff (1816-1899), and his son Dr. Oliver Nixon Huff (1852-1937) of Fountain City, Indiana, and Oliver Nixon Huff's wife, Sophia (Bogue) Huff (1866-1931). The oldest material in the Nixon-Huff...

Dates: 1760-1976; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1980

Found in: Friends Collection and Earlham College Archives

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

Found in: Friends Collection and Earlham College Archives

John T. Plummer Papers

Collection

Identifier: FMS-7

Scope and Contents

The Plummer Papers consist of an 1827 diary and notebook, photographs, and copies of writings by and about Plummer.

Dates: 1826-1954; Other: Majority of material found in 1827

Found in: Friends Collection and Earlham College Archives

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...

Dates: 1780-1960

Found in: Friends Collection and Earlham College Archives

Josiah Parker Papers

Collection

Identifier: FMS-24

Scope and Contents This collection consists of correspondence, account books, and business papers of Josiah Parker, a leading Quaker, farmer, and miller of the Richsquare community of Northampton County, North Carolina. It is rich in materials on Quaker life in North Carolina, the Quaker migration from North Carolina to Ohio and Indiana, the antislavery activities of North Carolina Friends, and the work of Friends in helping free people of color move from North Carolina and Virginia to Indiana. The Josiah...

Dates: 1787-1836; Other: Date acquired: 12/01/1991

Found in: Friends Collection and Earlham College Archives

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

Found in: Friends Collection and Earlham College Archives

Mabel Leigh Hunt Collection

Collection

Identifier: FMS-40

Scope and Contents

This collection consists largely of clippings and reminiscent material on Quaker life, especially in Indiana, that Hunt used in her writings. The collection also contains a few pre-1860 Quaker letters from Morgan and Hamilton counties in Indiana.

Dates: 1844-1978

Found in: Friends Collection and Earlham College Archives

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

Found in: Friends Collection and Earlham College Archives