Scope and Contents Claburn S. Jones (1860-1941) was a Pennsylvania Railroad official and the husband of Margaret (Kenworthy) Jones (1864-1929). This collection of family papers reflects the lives of Claburn and Margaret Jones and their children and relatives, especially Margaret's Evans Kenworthy Quaker relatives in Indiana and Ohio. Claburn S. Jones was apparently a man with a strong sense of family. He maintained a number of ledgers that he considered the family archives. Into these volumes he pasted...

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Letters written by Orthodox Friends in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Iowa to David J. Scott (1827-1914), a Friend of West Chester, Pa.

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Genealogical and historical materials relating to the ancestry of Earl L. Carter (born 1887) and his wife Hazelle M. Stauffer (1896-1922) of Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Letters to and from Joshua Dewees (1842-1918), a Conservative Friend of Belmont County, Ohio.

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Maule's papers reflect his business life and Quaker interests. They include correspondence with sympathetic Friends, Wilburite theological documents, and memorials of Sarah Maule and Joshua Maule's father, Jacob Maule. Of special interest is an account of a visit by the Quaker minister Thomas Lamborn to Abraham Lincoln in letters, and other documents reflect the life his youngest child, Sarah Maule, who married Ross L. Walker and also lived in Belmont County.

Scope and Contents The collection contains family materials dating from the 1850s to the 2000s. There is correspondance between members of the Smith family from the late 1800s, as well as many letters detailing Seth W. Smith's search for information about his family in the 1990s. One notable set of letters are the "Civil War Letters" written by a Union soldier and member of the family.  In addition, there are documents about the sale of the Smith farm, records of weddings, and Lewis H. Smith's Earlham College...

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...

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The William P. Taber papers document the life and activities of one of the most influential Quaker writers and ministers of the second half of the twentieth century.They are especially useful for the Conservative Friends tradition and unprogrammed Quakerism and its development.