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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...
Dates:
1834-1910
David Huddleston Papers
Collection
Identifier: FMS-3
Scope and Contents
The David Huddleston Papers document the daily life and religious faith of a conservative Orthodox Friend in Wayne County, Indiana. They illuminate a period when most Midwestern Friends underwent significant changes in their ways of life and worship.
The Huddleston Papers include one folder containing correspondence concerning the acquisition and provenance of the collection, circulars advertising David Huddleston’s nursery, clippings concerning the Huddleston Inn operated by David...
Dates:
1872-1891; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1960
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...
Dates:
1788-1957
Hill-Hudelson Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: FMS-64
Scope and Contents
The Hill-Hudelson Family Papers consists of correspondence, legal and business records, photographs, and newspaper clippings of two families in Rush and Henry Counties, Indiana. The first part of the collection relates to the family of Henry Branson Hill (1807-1874) of Carthage, Indiana, and his son William Penn Hill(1832-1896) of Knightstown, Indiana. The second part of the collection relates to the family of William Penn Hill's wife, Ann Maria (Hudelson) Hill (1830-1919), especially her...
Dates:
1831-1932; Other: Date acquired: 06/06/1994
National Extension Homemakers Council Oral History Collection
Collection
Identifier: FMS-79
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of transcripts of oral history interviews done in 1982 with long-time members of Extension Homemakers Clubs across the United States as part of the "Voices of American Homemakers" project. The collection documents numerous facets of American women's lives in the twentieth century. Attached is a listing of interviewees with places. The transcripts include releases and biographical questionnaires.
Dates:
1982
Stanton Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: FMS-155
Abstract
Correspondence, essays, photographs, scrapbooks, clippings, publications, and ephemera of the family of John F. Stanton (1841-1925) and his wife Emily (Hadley) Stanton (1843-1910) of Indiana and Ohio.
Dates:
1848-1960; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/2010