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Five Years Meeting (Society of Friends : U.S.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Errol T. Elliott Papers

 Collection
Identifier: FMS-17
Scope and Contents

The Elliott Papers consist of correspondence, reminiscences and writings reflecting his career, wartime service, world travels, and his interest in Quaker history.

Dates: 1917-1980

Five Years Meeting Sunday School Literature

 Collection
Identifier: FRG-3
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of Sunday School materials for Five Years Meeting and Friends United Meeting.

Dates: 1941-1959

Friends United Meeting

 Collection
Identifier: FRG-37
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of Friends United Meeting records, including meeting minutes, photographs, correspondence, publications, and official records. Most records are related to missions operated by Friends United Meeting, particularly those in Kenya, Ramallah, and Cuba.

Dates: 1890 - 2002

Homer and Edna Morris Collection

 Collection — Box 42
Identifier: FMS-6
Scope and Contents

This collection reflects Homer Morris’s career as an academic economist and longtime member of the Earlham College board (1930-51),  and especially the Morris’s work for the American Friends Service Committee. It contains class notes, correspondence, calendar book and publications as well as material pertaining to personal business, social justice issues, and the peace movement. Homer Morris was a member of the teaching faculty (1918-28) in Economics, and an alum (Class of 1911).

Dates: 1911-1951

Merle L. Davis Papers

 Collection — Box 8
Identifier: FMS-75
Scope and Contents

The Merle L. Davis Papers consist of correspondence, notebooks, photographs, reports, and other materials documenting the career of Merle Leonard Davis as a Quaker minister, missionary, and administrator. The collection contains significant material for the history of the Five Years Meeting of Friends (now Friends United Meeting), Quaker missions, and Friends in Kenya and Cuba.

Dates: 1915-1965; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1995

Murray S. Kenworthy Collection

 Collection
Identifier: FMS-14
Scope and Contents

This collection of material gathered by his son Leonard S. Kenworthy (1912-1990) documents his life and varied activities. It represents his work at various schools and Meetings in New York, Indiana, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., as well as his time with the American Friends Service Committee.

Dates: 1871-1986; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1987

United Society of Friends Women Records

 Collection
Identifier: FRG-7
Scope and Contents This collection consists of records of the United Society of Friends Women and its predecessor bodies, the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Union of Friends in America and the Woman’s Missionary Union of Friends in America.  They are a rich source for the missionary activities of American Quakers since the 1880s and the establishment of Quakerism in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Central America. These records were housed for many years in the vault of First Friends Meetinghouse in Richmond. ...
Dates: Other: Add Date

Walter C. Woodward Papers

 Collection
Identifier: FMS-11
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of correspondence on Quaker affairs, especially relating to the Five Years Meeting. It apparently is a fragment of Woodward's papers, most of which are still in the hands of family.

Dates: 1917-1921